Anybody buy lumber lately?

[GDR]

8”x8”x24’ PT went from $235 this time last year to $600 here now. Something about not being able to get big spruce anymore and having to switch to fir

Those would be some heavy posts! We used to build lots of pole sheds with big posts. Pretty tough to get anything straight or dry that long anymore. Most have gone to laminated posts.

Did they still treat the fir poles? They should last forever

[dalek]

Those would be some heavy posts! We used to build lots of pole sheds with big posts. Pretty tough to get anything straight or dry that long anymore. Most have gone to laminated posts.

Did they still treat the fir poles? They should last forever

They treat the fir but not for as long as the spruce. I was planning a hay barn this fall, going to wait for next year and square up some white ash for posts this winter instead

[burnt]

They treat the fir but not for as long as the spruce. I was planning a hay barn this fall, going to wait for next year and square up some white ash for posts this winter instead

Are the white ash dying up your way too? Will you be treating them, at least at the ground level?

[dalek]

Are the white ash dying up your way too? Will you be treating them, at least at the ground level?

Some are dying but it’s still pretty hit and miss. I’ll have to treat the bottoms with something

[Guest]

we got a building package this summer from Goodon and I got them to send some extra 2x6x12' . they were exactly half the price from Goodon of the lumber yards here at $3 a piece

[Horse]

White Ash, is that birch,i don't believe we have any ash here.

[burnt]

Ash is a variety of its own with quite a few different strains of ash. Definitely not birch, which we have also.

It's a lighter wood but still strong. Straight grain, and makes really nice, clean-burning firewood.

[WiltonRanch]

Posts and rails have got stupid too. 6’ 3-4 $4.20 8’ 5-6” $12.50 16’ doweled rails $15.50. Freestanding 24’ pipe and sucker rod panels $300. Every time a wood corral dies it becomes steel.

[GDR]

Some are dying but it’s still pretty hit and miss. I’ll have to treat the bottoms with something

We built a shed and covered the post bottoms to about 2ft above grade with heavy tar, worked good as an option.

[LEP]

we got a building package this summer from Goodon and I got them to send some extra 2x6x12' . they were exactly half the price from Goodon of the lumber yards here at $3 a piece

Careful, they may not be kiln dried. When Good on built my shop, about two weeks after it was built, anything that was left behind was twisted like a corkscrew. It was wet lumber.