surprisingly though it appears 2x6 through 2x10 have gone up some but have not doubled or tripled like 2x4s.
looks like only a 20% to 30% increase in 2x6s vs 100% in 2x4s
looks like only a 20% to 30% increase in 2x6s vs 100% in 2x4s
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Trev, that's not a very helpful "citation". Can you say where you read it? Can you name the bug or type of bug? Any specifics at all about where it's happening? (Canada is a BIG place).read an article about canadian bug kill timber so rapid that it's decaying before they can cut and process it. thoughts were that 2 to 3 years out could be a dramatic shortage of available good timber to cut
sorry paul when i went back to try and find the article i couldn't seem to locate it. i believe i saw it originally in a commodities articles list while i was looking at copper futures prices.Trev, that's not a very helpful "citation". Can you say where you read it? Can you name the bug or type of bug? Any specifics at all about where it's happening? (Canada is a BIG place).
I would short stock. Biden gets elected and economy goes down. Trump gets eI’m glad I got our deck built and screened in about this time last year. If I had to buy lumber for a big project I’d hedge the extra cost by investing in Weyerhaeuser or other lumber producers!
Got any lumber you wanna sell haha.Ha ha I have been toying with the idea of selling my mill and upgrading a little. Surprise surprise new mill are pretty much a back order situation everywhere and no deals to be had. Some places don't even have blades to sell. Guess I will keep on using what I have. Guessing my 2 x4's cost me about $.50.
I agree. Lumber market will crash. And nice slightly used mills will be cheap.This is totally unsustainable, I'm pretty sure it's driven by speculation. When it comes down it will come down hard. The commodity market is a rough game.
When I bought my mill 8 years ago my wife was less than happy. I think at the time I was close to $7000 for the basic mill. I upgraded to a bigger engine and longer track and bought a box of blades which pushed it up some more. Paid for itself many times over and I bet in this market I could get what I paid for it.
I don't think becoming certified as a softwood lumber grader is a real big deal. I have read about others doing it so they could sell and use home grown lumber. We are not required to use grade stamped lumber here for most work. From the looks of some of the grade stamped crap that I have purchased over the years you probably don't even need to know what you are doing just pass the testI have been on tours of large mills where the lumber is moving so fast I don't see how it could be properly certified. It looked to me like a couple of guys working a fast moving conveyor belt were pulling culls and the rest got a stamp.We are building but seeing homeowners starting to back out of major renovations till lumber drops. Am looking into cost of lumbergrader/certified stamper per hour with an eye toward milling for friends and family in areas that require frame inspections. Our company has already begun to in house source materials like white oak through our Sawmills and a neighboring commercial kiln.