Heart Pine Lumber

Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress.

Heart pine lumber.

Pine is an often overlooked flooring material due as it s a softer wood although heart pine is different from yellow or white pine. You deserve only the best. These trees were very dense and high in resign content. It can be the heartwood of the southern pines.

Heartpine is the finest lumber ever grown. Some companies sell southern yellow pine loblolly shortleaf pine slash or a combination and call it heart pine. As a result heart pine is very durable. These salvaged heart pine timbers once destined for the land fill have a wonderful hidden beauty that can only be released by sawing these timbers into lumber.

Heart pine refers to the heartwood of the pine tree which is the non living center of the tree trunk while the sapwood is the outer living layer which transports nutrients. Designed and preserved by nature carefully recovered and expertly refined. Heart pine wood heart pine is the old growth yellow pine once common in the american south and atlantic coast regions. These slow growth heartwood pine trees matured in 400 to 500 years.

Heart pine is the heartwood of the longleaf pine tree pinus palustris which is no longer harvested for commercial use and is now primarily available only as reclaimed lumber. Heart pine is our cornerstone product and our favorite wood to work with. This forest grew trees four feet in diameter and up to 150 feet tall. Although they are pine and they have heartwood antique longleaf pine especially the river recovered wood is stronger more durable more stable and has a richer patina and color.

Early american settlers discovered a vast forest over 95 million acres spanning from the southern atlantic shoreline to the mississippi river. Incidentally the name southern yellow pine when referring to graded lumber includes only the four major species. Antique heart pine lumber 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking. Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring.

If you re looking for something unique for your home it s certainly an option and a wood with a very interesting history from a production standpoint. Heartwood and sapwood in pinus sylvestris. Is it truly antique. Heart pine does not have to be reclaimed or centuries old.

The lumberyard stuff is slash pine pinus elliottii loblolly pine pinus taeda or less often shortleaf pine pinus echinata.