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Has there been a big price jump on lumber?
SXSMAN
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Stopped at not so Lowes to buy some red oak to frame the inside of a new window and had sticker shock.
When did wood go up so much ?(oak was really high)
Ended up buying a few boards of poplar with the oak to keep the cost down.
Still had about $60 in lumber with the cheaper poplar.
Looks like the times,they are a changing.[V]
When did wood go up so much ?(oak was really high)
Ended up buying a few boards of poplar with the oak to keep the cost down.
Still had about $60 in lumber with the cheaper poplar.
Looks like the times,they are a changing.[V]
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Disgusting, I left it all there and went up front to Customer Service and complained. Then went online at Home Depot and complained there too.
Best check where it came from. I was in Home Depot a couple of days ago and found MADE IN CHINA stickers on lumber, dowels and unfinished table legs.
Disgusting, I left it all there and went up front to Customer Service and complained. Then went online at Home Depot and complained there too.
It's cheaper for them to send raw logs to China and have it milled and then ship it back to the US than it is to have it milled here. IT SUCKS!
Best check where it came from. I was in Home Depot a couple of days ago and found MADE IN CHINA stickers on lumber, dowels and unfinished table legs.
That is due to most of the timber cut in the US and Canada goes to China.
If you can find a local tree cutter getting hardwood slabs is cheap. You can plane the boards down to what you need.
Sounds great if the mill has a kiln, and you have a board planer.
If you are just making a simple project, and don't have a woodworking shop, it shoots that idea in the foot.
There is one local guy here that mills and kiln drys his wood. He is also twice the price of the local lumberyards too.
Wish there was some way to get it to someplace w a market.
And folks are trying to get rid of cedar off their land and no one wants it.
Location, location, location.
CP
Oh, all all our forests are full of dead timber due to bug kill. It's great for firewood gatherers, and also for anyone who has a portable sawmill. Here, we don't need a kiln. After ten years of drought, the moisture content in standing LIVE trees is less than a 2x4 at the lumber yard.
Here in the Northern Rockies, it used to be every little town had a sawmill. No hardwood here of course, but you could always get roughsawn pine, finished, house logs, whatever locally. Within 20 years, they have all gone. Thank the bunnyhuggers for that one.
Oh, all all our forests are full of dead timber due to bug kill. It's great for firewood gatherers, and also for anyone who has a portable sawmill. Here, we don't need a kiln. After ten years of drought, the moisture content in standing LIVE trees is less than a 2x4 at the lumber yard.
I'm glad to see someone gets it.
They wanted something like 65 bucks each for green ruff cut lumber.
I need to start hauling rough cut lumber to CT.
You can buy rough cut lumber here for $150 per-thousand board feet.