I don't have much left, but had some old pine that was floor joists in an old building in Nashville. Built in 1910, I gave the timbers roughly 5 years from being felled to being installed. I was working on that building in the late 90s and we were cutting a new stairway and elevator shaft through 4 floors. I was only there there last two floors, and they had been trashing the timbers, 3"x15" ones!
The hole cut through the 4th floor was 14 foot long, and the boards were mine, and stacked there ready for me to load. The building owner did a walk through that day, and after he left the job superintendent called me over and had this terrible look on his face. The owner wanted the wood! Wasn't much I could say though, it was his building, and I sure couldn't fault him none for liking good wood.
I did ask him later what he planned to do with it. Five boards 15" wide, and 14 ft long, he was having a table made with it!
Those timbers, you could sand it smooth, and count the rings, 5 years prior to 1910, right back to the Civil War, The Alamo, The War of 1812, right back to the American Revolution
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