anyone know yellow pine?

[Jsant27]

I am doing some timber framed accents for a house...beams and posts in the living room, and went to the sawyer and had him offer yellow pine, which im not familiar with.  How is it compared to white pine in terms of workability, strength, and stability?  he said its pretty rare these days.  the grain is beautiful i just want to get some more info.  also heard it might stain really badly. 

please share if you have used this wood.
thanks

[Texas Ranger]

in the eastern US yellow pine is southern yellow pine, not rare, a strong and reliable wood.  It may help if you filled out your profile so we can guess what area you are in, and the nature of the timber.

[thecfarm]

Jsant27,welcome to the forum.
Never had a chance to work with yellow pine,but the white pine I have in my area is not known for it strength. But maybe in beam sized that might change. 

[WDH]

We are covered up with yellow pines here in the Deep South.  Loblolly, shortleaf, slash, longleaf, pond, spruce, sand, pitch, virginia, and table mountain are all yellow pines.  Other yellow pines further North are pitch pine, red pine, and jack pine.  In the west, ponderosa and lodgepole are yellow pines.  There are a whole host of them.

Saying a pine is a yellow pine is not much to go on.  Your location will be a clue. 

[Jsant27]

sorry i forgot to mention.  this is in western massachusetts.  the yellow pine in question is from the hill country of western mass, montague to be specific.  its not from the south, this is a small local sawyer.

[beenthere]

Indeed sounds rare. ;)

Inquire more about this rare yellow pine the local sawyer talks about. We'd be interested.

And if you click on your forum name, you will get to where you can update your profile with location and other things of your choice. Helps a lot...

Your native pines appear to be three... per the link here.  Pitch pine might be what you are offered..
http://www.treesforme.com/ma_pinus.html

[Heartwood]

Jon,
Jack Pine, Red Pine and Pitch Pine are all classified as "Northern Pine" by NeLMA in the grading rules and design value tables. Stronger than Eastern White but harder to work with hand tools, in my opinion. Pitch Pine might be too resinous and messy, but beautiful