I am trying to recruit someone to come to the class with me. This person is a structural engineer and stands hard against the possibility of using the longleaf yellow pine or southern pine as some call it, for building a log home using the butt and pass method. He contends the logs are too prone to rot and you'd have to haul in cypress or some other specie by rail or truck down here and it would cost too much. I'm arguing the point about how many people it would take to build a home as well as the possibility of doing it for under 40$ a foot. It is my understanding from reading on this forum that you can use the pine down here as long as you avoid the beetles, peel properly and subsequently treat and keep dry as well as put the overhangs on the home as taught in the class. Is this correct? Can you use these logs without any future issues down here so far south next to the gulf? I would really like to have my friend understand this better as I will probably be doing this solo when the times comes if I cannot convince him. Thanks, Merrick.
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