"Corrie" wrote in message
om...
AHA! It's all in the wrist, or in getting the correct search terms in
google. Depends what you want to do. Anyway, here are a couple of
links to info:

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/Communica...e/3nws0806.htm
http://www.safnet.org/archive/0703_howtointerpret.cfm

From that second site, here's some interesting info:

"...species groups ... are denoted by these abbreviations:
Spruce-Pine-Fir S-P-F
..."

I saw a *lot* of lumber at the yard stamped S-P-F. Spruce-pine-fir,
doesn't matter for wall studs. Oh joy, or rupture.

The wood you find at the Borg* may have the word "Fir" but you will notice
the absence of the modifier "Douglas". I'm about the open up a wall in my
living room and install a couple more windows. You can bet I'll be going to
a real lumber yard and buying kiln-dried Douglas Fir studs and headers. That
wet sub-species crap at the Borg will twist and turn like a stick of red
licorice as it cures.

*Borg: Aliens who operation out of a cube-shaped ship (may be disguised as a
building).

Rich S.