[Mike V. Florida]

There is a Packard museum here in Ft Lauderdale that has wood trusses. When they wanted to expand they were told they would have to replace all the trusses because of them being made of wood. Well the wood is Dade County pine, hard as steel, once aged you cannot put a nail into it. The owner took a truss and subjected it to stress testing to prove to the county that it was as strong as steel trusses, it beat the test. The museum was expanded and the wood trusses remain. (Dade county pine is extinct now).