Apparently all these years we thought that pine was the strongest of all wood. Well guess what? NOPE!
I am pretty good friends with one of the engineers that works for the Universal Forest Products. When I heard about this I emailed him and here is his email back to me.
It’s not a rumor. The final discussion will be taking place on Oct 20 with a publication of their decision on Oct 21. I expect SYP visual graded lumber values (not just MOE) to be reduced up to 30%. The million dollar question is, when will this be implemented. As I’m sure you are aware the span tables in the code could be invalidated once they publish the new standards. I personally expect the change to be implemented in 21-90 days after the announcement. The rumor on the streets is that it will be sooner rather then latter. No one that I have talked to expects the change to be implemented any latter then 90 days. We should know something in about 1 week.
About 1 year ago there were full scale truss test performed by our industry. During the test the lumber kept failing before it was suppose to. Our industry turned the test result over to the So Pine folks and suggested they look into it. They found our results to be a valid concern and took over there own investigation. The results/recommendations of their investigation are to be reported on Oct 21. The problems stem from new growth lumber and brash failures. The timber is being grown so fast that the old published values are not being met. MSR lumber should not be affected by this change from what I have been told so far.
After they publish their recommendation I plan to send the group an e-mail about what should be done in the short term and long term. Right now I don’t have any specific details and prefer not to cause a lot of concern when it is not needed.
I am pretty good friends with one of the engineers that works for the Universal Forest Products. When I heard about this I emailed him and here is his email back to me.
It’s not a rumor. The final discussion will be taking place on Oct 20 with a publication of their decision on Oct 21. I expect SYP visual graded lumber values (not just MOE) to be reduced up to 30%. The million dollar question is, when will this be implemented. As I’m sure you are aware the span tables in the code could be invalidated once they publish the new standards. I personally expect the change to be implemented in 21-90 days after the announcement. The rumor on the streets is that it will be sooner rather then latter. No one that I have talked to expects the change to be implemented any latter then 90 days. We should know something in about 1 week.
About 1 year ago there were full scale truss test performed by our industry. During the test the lumber kept failing before it was suppose to. Our industry turned the test result over to the So Pine folks and suggested they look into it. They found our results to be a valid concern and took over there own investigation. The results/recommendations of their investigation are to be reported on Oct 21. The problems stem from new growth lumber and brash failures. The timber is being grown so fast that the old published values are not being met. MSR lumber should not be affected by this change from what I have been told so far.
After they publish their recommendation I plan to send the group an e-mail about what should be done in the short term and long term. Right now I don’t have any specific details and prefer not to cause a lot of concern when it is not needed.