>
>
> Ralph Walter wrote:
>
> > Leland,
> >
> > You might try poplar, too.  I have heavy rails on my front porch which turned
> > out to be poplar and held up pretty damn well for 100 years plus.  You might
> > get into the new vs old growth problem, though.
> >
> > Ralph

I'm not there but I have to doubt that poplar lasted 100 yrs as anything but a drawer
side..
Sure these rails aren't locust/??


DD