{"id":4357,"date":"2013-07-20T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2013\/07\/20\/three-tons\/"},"modified":"2013-07-20T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T12:50:05","slug":"three-tons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2013\/07\/20\/three-tons\/","title":{"rendered":"Three tons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what three tons (well, 5,900-lbs) of wood looks like in my backyard.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e2019104527292970c\" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e2019104527292970c-400wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 364px\" title=\"A\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wood for the deck was delivered yesterday and the project is now, I s&#039;pose, officially underway.<\/p>\n<p>We ordered Southern Yellow Pine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advantagelumber.com\/pressuretreated\/\" target=\"_self\">pressure-treated<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_preservation#Micronized_copper_technology\" target=\"_self\">MCA<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advantagelumber.com\/cumaru_decking.htm\" target=\"_self\">Cumaru<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advantagelumber.com\" target=\"_self\">AdvantageLumber.com<\/a> &#8230; when doing the math, it was (sadly) cheaper to buy and ship the wood \u2014 even PT \u2014 across the country than to buy locally. The Cumaru was easily available in a hefty 5\/4 board thickness which will hopefully prevent cupping a bit \u2014 it&#039;s similar to Ipe, but a a much lower cost and is a bit lighter in tone. The Southern Yellow Pine is a stronger wood than is available locally and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_preservation#Micronized_copper_technology\" target=\"_self\">the treatment<\/a> is less corrosive, so it should make for a stronger foundation overall.<\/p>\n<p>We&#039;ll, of course, keep you updated as to the progress along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"B\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201901e5c7b8e970b\" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201901e5c7b8e970b-400wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 364px\" title=\"B\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what three tons (well, 5,900-lbs) of wood looks like in my backyard. The wood for the deck was delivered yesterday and the project is now, I s&#039;pose, officially underway. We ordered Southern Yellow Pine pressure-treated (MCA) and Cumaru from AdvantageLumber.com &#8230; when doing the math, it was (sadly) cheaper to buy and ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation-transformation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three tons - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2013\/07\/20\/three-tons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three tons - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is what three tons (well, 5,900-lbs) of wood looks like in my backyard. 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