Rvpapa wrote:
You will only find Spruce at the home stores. Look for Fir, very stiff and stays straight much better. Thats what was used for aircraft.
Art.
I buy fir framing all the time at my local, east coast Lowes.
As bob's your uncle correctly points out, a lot of posters don't understand that there are a lot of ways to quickly add up the pounds on a rebuild, and that thinking in terms of typical sticks and bricks construction would be a disaster. Especially when it comes to questions about using full 2x4s for sidewalls, or the lack of wall sheathing under the siding. To put it in perspective, I owned a custom home building company that occasionally worked with modular homes. Since prefinished sections of the home roll to the jobsite from the factory, the weight of that section of the home is documented. Even though it's taking things to a silly extreme, based on those weights, an 8'x32' home, built to common specs, could easily weigh 8000 to 10,000 pounds. Now this would need appliances, furniture, tanks, a full frame, and axles added. I doubt that a "sticks and tin" style trailer "box" weights much more of a third of weight of a theoretical sticks and bricks framed box.
