Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring.
Heart pine lumber.
Designed and preserved by nature carefully recovered and expertly refined.
Incidentally the name southern yellow pine when referring to graded lumber includes only the four major species.
Early american settlers discovered a vast forest over 95 million acres spanning from the southern atlantic shoreline to the mississippi river.
Heart pine wood heart pine is the old growth yellow pine once common in the american south and atlantic coast regions.
Some companies sell southern yellow pine loblolly shortleaf pine slash or a combination and call it heart pine.
Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress.
Heartpine is the finest lumber ever grown.
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.
As a result heart pine is very durable.
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.
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.
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.
These slow growth heartwood pine trees matured in 400 to 500 years.
It can be the heartwood of the southern pines.
Is it truly antique.
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.
This forest grew trees four feet in diameter and up to 150 feet tall.
Unmatched in depth of color and tone our antique heart pine is available in six grades ranging from delicate refined lines and quartersawn elegance to the post industrial knot and nail hole ridden visual landscape of our naily buckshot when available and 3 grades.
You deserve only the best.
Antique heart pine lumber 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.
Often the reclaimed or old pine is called antique heart pine while pine sawn from trees today is called new heart pine.
These trees were very dense and high in resign content.
The lumberyard stuff is slash pine pinus elliottii loblolly pine pinus taeda or less often shortleaf pine pinus echinata.
Heartwood and sapwood in pinus sylvestris.
