Hemlocks

Right.

Hemlock is hardwood, hemlock, whereas white pine is softwood, but basswood, which is a deciduous tree, is very soft.

Butternut

soft.

And then I saw it on Facebook again and figured this would be a really good thing to do.

One of the other aspects with using the Hemlock 4x4 is it's very, very durable.

It's much stronger than SPF, which is...

SPF is Bruce Pine Fir, which is the standard building construction wood that they use in housing construction and that.

But Hemlock is far stronger.

But when you find a mill that produces it, because it doesn't... become readily available everywhere it comes at least the one we get it from it's rough cut so we had to take a grinder and grind it down and smooth it all out and then put some finish on it some stain on it just to give it a good look and when it comes up it really stands out very nicely i'm quite impressed actually And the one thing about this, it's not a standard step.

I bought eight-foot-long hemlock, and I made a seven-foot section step.