Lumber prices and alternatives

Fabrik8 said:
They're still building $400k houses, 10 feet apart from each other around here by the hundreds of acres.
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Makes me wonder what "cost" was in them that they can still do them at double the "cost!"
 
So how could a guy with a decent quality hobby sawmill capitalize on the current situation?
 
Meanwhile in SC


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Wes said:
I grew up with the Tuckers. They’re good people. Went to church and school with them. Stepmother retired from there. They’ve been killing it for as long as I can remember. Their great grandkids kids won’t need to work. You in Pageland?
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thats in rock hill
 
shawn said:
How much of that already belongs to somebody else?
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CM Tucker is the Lowes PT supplier. Used to be mine as well. I guarantee at least 80% of that has the Lowes Severe Weather tag as opposed to the typical MCA tag regular yards have on their material.
 
To add to this I saw on the news where they said gas stations might start running out because the tanker companies can't find drivers.
 
I still have my Class A CDL. Maybe I should give up this cushy WFH desk job and go drive a truck.



In second thought, someone hand me 2 aspirin and a Honey so that thought will go away.
 
@obullfish if you want walnut, go check out applachian walnut company in lincolnton. They have about the best price for walnut around charlotte. Starts out at $5 a bf and goes up based on figure. I also stopped by B.E. Kluttz Lumber today in Concord. They had a very nice selection of reasonably priced slabs/lumber and carried a lot of exotics as well

edit: also thanks for the follow on IG :beer:
 
Quality has definitely dropped off.
Loganwayne said:
a couple guys i went to school with that were bidding on state road work jobs have said they are stopping all bidding. Gov. work that involves lumber or unstable products i think will be coming to a standstill soon.
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Yeah it's super tough for them. We just put an order in for a couple of tractor trailer loads for a job to rebuild a old trestle bridge turned to a trail bridge. It was touch and go there for everybody between the bid opening and contract issuing. Thankfully they didn't take 30 days to get the contract out!
 
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