re: Can you get good straight, equal length lumber anymore...anywheres?

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When I get home I usuallt place treated lumber in my basement and set heavier items on top and turn them once a day to keep them straight as they dry some.

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About 10 years ago I had a customer that wanted me to build a heavy duty arbor for a huge wisteria plant. It had grown and destroyed her first arbor, pulling it apart as it grew.

Long story short, I bought 4 x 6 x 10 posts for the corners and other dimensional lumber in the 2 x 8, 2 x 6, 2 x 4 and 1 x 4 sizes to frame it all in and build a 4 ft. long swing to hang from it so she could sit under it.

I brought that lumber home and put it in my shop, spaced it, used 1 x 1 sticks to give each board air space as I stacked it. For the next week + that pile of lumber would drop enough of the crap used to treat it in enough quantity to form puddles under the wood.

The wood you get from big box stores and most lumber yards has no time to air dry before it is bought. The only place locally to buy dried treated wood that I know of is Gueydan Lumber on Airline Hwy. at Central Ave.