need some cheap dunnage????

You know it needs to be hardwood, snowwy.

 

Well when you put 50k on wood you need it to stay in the form it was, not flatten like a pancake..

 

wow. Just... wow.

 

Yep, the landscape timbers are usually SYP (southern yellow pine) impreg'd with creosote-like substance, and a "soft wood".
Oak is the most common hardwood.
If the neighbors are gone, a nice sturdy limb from that beautiful live oak in their back yard, cut and rough-hewn, should work fine.

 

I got away with using treated 4X4 lumber that I liberated from a shipper to place under their crane mats that I was hauling. I used those until I got a steel building kit load that was riddled with heavy, rough cut 4X4 oak timbers as dunnage. When the load came off, eight of those timbers stayed on my truck and the treated wood was left with the receiver

 

Shippers tend to come up with dunnage pretty quickly when you let them know that you're leaving empty. You should try that sometime, it might save you $32.

 

I don't carry a load just to pick up a load. Shippers provide their own dunnage and receivers get to take that with the product. If you're shipping a million dollar machine and you can't come up with your own 4x4 or 6x6, that is not my problem. If I carried everything a customer has ever wanted me to supply, I'd have no room for actual freight. I supply tarps, padding for my tarps and tie downs.