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OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint?

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Tim in New York

08-27-2006 09:09:58




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My sawyer mixed some hemlock 1X6 with the pine I ordered for fascia for my tractor shed. Its great looking stuff -almost clear. But will it hold paint? The rest of the building is pine, dried 2 years, primed and painted white.

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Tim in New York




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JOHN HARMON

08-27-2006 21:22:21




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to Tim in New York, 08-27-2006 09:09:58  
The old growth forests of Eastern Hemlock in the Applachian Mt's and elsewhere in the east/s.east are under atack by a tiny non-native sucking insect called HWA or Hemlock Wooly Adelgid and vast areas of this giant of the Evergreen Family are already starting to show the effects of the damage this tiny insect can render. The U.S.D.A. /Forest Service has so far barely given lip service to prevention and erradication of this insect but would rather gather fertile Seed of this often overlooked tree and send the seed to Chile and Brazil for Forest planting. Sort of an Outsourcing attempt of Hem Wood preservation.Hemlock/Fir/Spruce are all of the evergreen Family but each Species has it's own charcteristics. The point is. Wait a while and for a short period of time a large quantity of Hemlock Wood will be readily available and then it will be gone forever as the Chestnut is,unless/unless a prevention which has been applied to some areas of this Hemlock Forest is applied to all our Hemlock forests.This Tree killing insect came here via boat and Container freight it is thought.

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jdemaris

08-27-2006 18:50:59




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to Tim in New York, 08-27-2006 09:09:58  
It will hold paint fine if you can ever get it dry. That's not easy in New York State. I had some 14" wide hemlock boards planed on one side and kiln dried a few years ago - to make some barn doors and the oil-base paint I used worked with no problems. If you're using a light paint though, use a good primer because the tanin in the hemlock bleeds through. If you ever buy any ornamental pressure-treated wood, like porch turned spindles or post-caps, they are usually Canadian Hemlock (instead of Southern Yellow Pine). The Canadian hemlock seems better quality than our New York hemlock. I've also noticed that hemlock does not hold a flat surface after drying and planing - the grain keeps coming up. In regard to green hemlock, I've got two newer barns sided with it (board and batton), and one old barn built around 1830 (lapped horizontal siding). The addition on my house is also hemlock - vertical channel shiplap, 12" wide boards. The hemlock siding has never seemed to get dry enough on any of them where I'd want to risk painting. I prefer it bare anyway because it weathers to a nice orange-brown color - unlike White Pine that seems to weather to dull ugly gray.

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Tim in New York

08-27-2006 19:20:17




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to jdemaris, 08-27-2006 18:50:59  
Thanks everyone. I have them stickered in my barn, right underneath the tin ceiling. They were supposed to be dry before being planed, but tough to tell since it was raining when I picked them up. They don't feel green, so I'll dry them for a while, then a couple coats of oil primer and paint.
Tim



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mjbrown

08-27-2006 12:25:20




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to Tim in New York, 08-27-2006 09:09:58  
An awful lot of old barns here in NY were sided in hemlock. It often lasted decades without paint. My barn has it throughout. I think when dry it will hold paint.



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Nebraska Cowman

08-27-2006 11:52:33




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to Tim in New York, 08-27-2006 09:09:58  
Reminds me of the story in the early days of settling western Pa. A lumberman floated a barge or Hemlock down the river to the port at New Orleans, Proceded to hunt up an unexpierenced buyer and after a few drinks managed to sell him several thousand feet ot "knot pine" Afer the buyer sobered up and complained he was told, "Didn't I tell you plainly it was Not Pine?"



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GeorgeH

08-27-2006 14:20:03




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 Re: OT - will hemlock lumber hold paint? in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 08-27-2006 11:52:33  
Were you on the barge? LOL



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