Originally Posted by slumlord
I don’t know bout no “winner winner chicken dinner”

I’m just not seeing ‘this’

Pics of chestnut below



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Man that is some pretty stuff. That’s POST blight lumber. Fairly heavy stuff in comparison to softer woods.
I think the OP mentioned the beam he had didn’t feel to dense. And from the sawed picture, I am gonna go with a softer, moisture-bug resistant wood like a cedar or Cyprus too.