I had asked a buddy of mine to give me a hand picking out the lumber for the basement stairs, and helping me get it home. I asked him to carefully check the boards for integrity, are they straight, are they checked at the ends. He assured me that we got some beautiful boards.
When I cut that first little registration chunk, about 1.5 inches long, off the end of one of the 2X10 boards, it literally fell in half, a split running right through it. So, I cut another 1.5 inches. It fell in half. So, I cut a third 1.5 inches. That one didn't fall in half, but when I picked it up and flexed it slightly, it broke in half. The fourth chunk wouldn't break in my hands, but I can kind of feel the split in it. So, hopefully after six inches of my board are gone, I might actually have some usable lumber. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
