Since pine is a plentiful wood and is easy to process pine pallets tend to be relatively cheap and easy to come by.
Pine are hardwood.
Eastern white pine 380 western white pine 420 and sugar pine 380 rank at the bottom of pine species and near the bottom of the hardness scale in general.
Softwood comes from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce.
Pine has a great deal of stiffness and.
Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots.
Softwood grows much faster than hardwood so pallets made from softwood are arguably more sustainable.
Pine trees are considered a softwood tree which means the wood is softer than hardwood varieties.
Pine trees grow around the world not just in the u s.
Most pine species have a janka rating between 300 and 1 000 pounds but two heart pine 1 255 and caribbean pine 1 240 score in a range that compares with some hardwood species.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.