Sept 2020 - Construction Lumber Prices

[CrealCritter]

Just a FYI... Demand for lumber has grown to more than 120 percent since mid-April. I guess ole Crealcritter wasn't the only one who's government stimulation was burning a hole in his pocket. With mortgage intrest rates as low as I can remember, it was a great time to buy a farm . Now I just have to wait for the lumber prices to drop before finishing up the "man cave". The experts are saying Lumber prices are supposed to start dropping come November. But only because DYI'ers don't want to get there handsies pansanies cold, awe... how sweet, poor feetsies wheatsies might get cold too.

FB Messenger conversation with a complete stranger who I thought was selling plywood.

 

[CrealCritter]

We also noticed that the Portland nightly riots pretty much went away at the same time, although there are fires being started there as well.

Have you noticed that some people are claiming the fires are being caused by climate change, but they almost completely stop at the northern and southern borders? Apparently Canada and Mexico are not suffering from climate change. I thought we were all on the same planet (although sometimes I have my doubts about California)

I visited southern California when my son-in-law was stationed at Camp Pendleton. It was the nastiest air I ever witnessed. Washed my wife's car, the next day it looked like I didn't even wash it. The water on Camp Pendleton was not good either. I'm not trying to be biased but I never seen so many plastic women in one place before.

 

[Britesea]

Did anyone have THIS on their 2020 Bingo card?

 

[Mini Horses]

WOW -- cutting power poles?? Can't they commit suicide by jumping from a bridge?

 

[Britesea]

most people don't realize just how far a spark can travel from one of those electric lines. We're not talking inches, we're talking feet! A lot of innocent people get hurt every year because they think that as long as they don't touch it, they're safe.

 

[CrealCritter]

most people don't realize just how far a spark can travel from one of those electric lines. We're not talking inches, we're talking feet! A lot of innocent people get hurt every year because they think that as long as they don't touch it, they're safe.

High voltage lines are no joke

 

[Mini Horses]

I live only a few miles from an International paper plant. They cut pine, make lumber and paper product like fount in diapers or such (?). Huge piles of lumber there. Not treated, so indoor use. Flood and fire has affected lumber sources....as well as grain crops. Add to that the issues with transporting, sick people and there you have it...limited availability.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Insane. thank you mr. biden.

 

[baymule]

My daughter is a college professor in Odessa, Texas. It is a wealthy town, as is Midland, right next to Odessa. However it is a place of haves, and have-nots. She has students living in portable buildings with their families, using a bucket for a toilet. One family with 6 kids, lives in a RV, there are many like that. Poverty is real, it’s everywhere, no wonder people are so angry.

Prices on everything keep going up, it will eventually crash, much to the delight of the one world order pushers.

Our neighbor got a sawmill, he’s been playing with it, working the bugs out, learning how to operate it. I want to build a cordwood house with post and beam construction. We have the pine trees here on our property. It will take several years to accumulate and dry the wood. That’s what’s working in the back of my head....... I don’t know where yet, but this double wide mobile home is not sustainable.

Here in our area, people are being priced out of owning a home. Starter homes are now over $250,000. For new homes, they say to add $30K to $50K MORE because of the high prices on materials now.

 

[Medicine Woman]

I pretty much don’t buy lumber except at the mill in the form of bundles. We can get some pretty good deals there.
I have no intention of bulldozing my wrecked house. I simply cannot see people throwing away so much lumber after the storm with the prices of lumber being what they are.
We went to check prices on sheet metal today. They must totally love DH. He was told he could buy the cover sheets for $1 a foot so basically the protective, outer sheet metal. We ended up buying 199 feet of various colors.
As to the idea of making a cordwood cabin....when that tornado hit us and busted our house apart, it clipped several of our cypress trees to 15 feet and so we had lots of huge trunks scattered around the yard. I told DH we should cut it into cordwood. Cypress last a long time. But ultimately I really want to go underground. I never wanna see Mother Nature that pissed again.