Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices?

[5030]

It not so much inflation as it is hard to even find it. Production is down on alot of items due to covid rip off.

Tis what it tis...................

 

[Diggin It]

I'm not really having trouble finding stuff. My Big Box stores have most things including some of the lumber upthread. Prices for untreated boards have changed some, but not a lot. I got an electric panel and breakers with no issue other than me not realizing there were compatibility issues between Square D products and having to reorder. Appliances don't seem to be an issue either, but I haven't checked on deep freezers.

I used to order and pay for concrete on the Lowes website so I could just pull up to the pile outside and load it. For some reason, they're not doing that now and you have to buy it in store.

The only major issue is PT lumber as I mentioned earlier.

As far as inflation numbers, the CPI is delayed a month or two and is dragged down by lower energy prices.

 

[MagicMM]

Rising/uncertain lumber prices has my protable sawmilling business going crazy.

Here is over 7500 board feet of 2X4's, 2X6's, and 1X lumber that I have sawn for one customer during the past week.

That plus 36 more logs to saw the first of this week. Did I say crazy?

 

[civilian]

Rising/uncertain lumber prices has my protable sawmilling business going crazy.
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Here is over 7500 board feet of 2X4's, 2X6's, and 1X lumber that I have sawn for one customer during the past week.
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That plus 36 more logs to saw the first of this week. Did I say crazy?

Where are you getting the logs from? And what kind? What saw type do you have, band or circular? Just wondering because I have some ash, pine and cherry to have cut up and am wondering if I want to purchase a saw. Thanks for the info. Jon

 

[MagicMM]

I have a Wood-Mizer LT40 SuperHydraulic band sawmill and this is my 19th year sawing. Last year I passed 2 million board feet of lumber sawn. I only do custom portable sawing and do not buy logs nor sell lumber. I simply saw whatever the customer wants from whatever logs he has. These 136 logs came from about 5 acres that the customer cleared. This is a road trip job 98 miles from home.

I would consider contacting a local portable sawyer and have him saw up a few logs. That way you can watch/help and make a decision about whether you might be interested in buying a sawmill.

I have traveled through Vanderbilt, MI, many times and can probably put you in contact with a nearby sawyer.

 

[Diggin It]

What can I use for posts to be buried in rocky clay? All I've ever used is PT 4x4s. There's a guy running a mill not too far from here that does custom work on top of his own, but I don't know what wood he cuts. I don't have anything long enough and straight enough to do a 12' post.

It MUST NOT rot, warp, curl, etc. I could do concrete pilings in sonotube and set the posts on top.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Hey, Overszd, doesn't that depend on the direction of the collapse?

In 1971 when Nixon ended gold-backed currency, a new era started in the USA. Today the dollar is now backed up by our Gross Domestic Product....and inflation is offset by the gains in the GDP. Basically Nixon gave the gov't the ability to print money without restraint, and in doing so he literally created today's international debt-based economy.

The old type of economic collapse was what happened in the Great Depression of the 1930s. That type of collapse isn't possible anymore, because that type of collapse was brought about by the requirement that there be enough gold in Ft. Knox to back up the dollars in circulation. The gold wasn't there because the USA either hadn't mined enough, or produced enough goods for export, or because we bought too much from countries who demanded to be paid in gold, or because the gold/dollar ratio had been changed away from 1:1.

Probably all of those reasons contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

But we aren't there anymore. The other type of economic collapse works in the opposite direction. It is the kind of collapse that wasn't possible in the USA until 1971, although historically is is the more common type of economic collapse that countries experience. It is the type that could happen to us today.

It's the kind of collapse where there are too many dollar bills printed, the country's GDP has gone down, and with it goes the value of the dollar that GDP supports. Theoretically, a country could sit around producing nothing until dollar bills were only worth the paper and ink. In that case most anyone would rather have gold than paper. And that's the argument for gold in a nutshell: In the only type of collapse that is possible today, gold is better to have under the mattress than paper dollars.

For hundreds of years that type of collapse couldn't happen in the USA because dollars were backed by gold. i.e. Ft. Knox. But now that it can happen doesn't mean it will. Frankly I find a collapse unlikely. More likely when GDP falters all that happens is dollars will go down and gold go up....sometimes rapidly, but more often at a slow rate of change we call inflation.

If I am wrong and a collapse does happen, dollar bills will not have value, but something else will. It might be gold, and again it might be something else.

I'm betting on land, tractors and implements....how about you?
rScotty

I think you may be right. That and guns and ammo. Good, viable land with clean water sources are going to be a premium as well.

 

[Thomas]

Seems every time shipment arrives prices go up more so on PT wood,bought 10 6'x6"x10' today and clerk said "we never know when next load will arrive"

 

[ovrszd]

Paint is always a horrible investment.

 

[MagicMM]

What can I use for posts to be buried in rocky clay?

If that was directed toward me, Google Maps and I have no idea where "Lower Uncton" is?

Normally Black Locust, various Cedars, Tamarack, White and Post Oak are favored for posts.