Hi Ken,

Sounds like a lot of fun poking around that building. I was wondering if you have some tricks you've come up w/ to identify old wood.

Many times I'll be poking around an old barn here, and though I know my area woods species quite well, time makes them look different. And "old growth" is not quite the same (does not look the same) as what I've grown up with either.

No doubt, the blackend faces of those timbers you're looking at must make it tough to tell at first what you've got.

Any suggestions / tricks you (or anyone else) can share?