You can donate the salvage rights of your barns and buildings and get a fair market value tax write-off and help contribute to this work. The picture above shows one of our recently donated barns. Our heart pine is resawn from old beams from 100-year old buildings made of Southern Long Leaf yellow pine, which is very hard. Southern Long Leaf pine is now very rare. Most of our antique oak is from old barn beams.
Chestnut is rare but appears occasionally in old barns.
It's a beautiful wood which glistens when it is finished. White pine is softer, but some prefer its appearance to yellow or heart pine. It has a glistening golden appearance especially with finish or rightly stained. Hemlock has a touch of gray and beige, has a coarser grain, and is harder. It has a fine glistening finish.