Thank you for this nice explanation of the wood price. Now I'll have a place to send people who bitch about wood price. Just last weekend I made a door frame, just out of select pine no nut at all, and the guy was bitching about the price of the wood. He only bought green spruce construction lumber and for him all the wood is worth this. And why not, he looks around ans he only see trees all over the place, it should be free... That's the problem making stuff for others, they think that wood is free and our time is also free, so they can keep in their pocket their $100,000 salary and let the other starve to death....
Im living for 12 years in China now and one thing i know is that the Oakboards at that shop are maybe expencive to moste but pretty cheap to me. I will pay that for a 3 grade if im lucky. Now i thought i could get my wood from Japan or China or other places in Asia but moste of it comes from the US and Canada ( Canada a lot of pine). Sure shipping etc but wood wise i cant send anything back if incorrect, i just have to except it and pay ,and taking a big risk for making furniture.This makes furniture much more expencive and thats why i try to buy used wood ( floors or furniture ) or cuts that are left. So , jealous at those prices and thinking if you earn to less on your tree, then try selling it to a Chinese wood shop.;)
Visited a local lumber mill a few months back and he said that a lot of his business is filling shipping containers with lifts of wood and shipping it to china.
I am surprised you get 70 cents a board foot delivered to the mill. I talked to my local mill about it, and they will pay anywhere from 20 to maybe 50 cents a board foot and maybe a buck or so for very nice veneer grade that they resell to a veneer mill in the area. I keep an eye out for trees and logs and I always tell people 10 to 15 cents (even for walnut and white oak) for me to come out a pick it up, take it to the mill, organize getting it milled, etc. It's an offer that is rarely taken up, and they usually end up getting some utterly insane price for the log somehow. But if people are used to paying 10 bucks a board foot for lumber at home stores and the like they can pay more than a buck a board feet felled for walnut, white oak or the like and in some cases 2 bucks a board foot. Meanwhile I stick to getting select and better graded trees for free from people with a little bit of work and typically 25-50 cent a board foot for milling.
Great outline, Peter!
This was a very cool idea for a video! How could you tell so quickly how many board feet you could get from that tree by looking at that yardstick?
@@mikeingeorgia1 log height by diameter. There is a table on the stick so all the calculations are made beforehand.
@ that’s really slick. Where can you buy one of those at?
@@mikeingeorgia1 forestry suppliers
Thank you for this nice explanation of the wood price. Now I'll have a place to send people who bitch about wood price. Just last weekend I made a door frame, just out of select pine no nut at all, and the guy was bitching about the price of the wood. He only bought green spruce construction lumber and for him all the wood is worth this. And why not, he looks around ans he only see trees all over the place, it should be free... That's the problem making stuff for others, they think that wood is free and our time is also free, so they can keep in their pocket their $100,000 salary and let the other starve to death....
Home Depot sells a lot of brittle boards. Have read that they dry the wood too quickly.
Very cool video Peter. I learned a lot!
Very interesting info.
Im living for 12 years in China now and one thing i know is that the Oakboards at that shop are maybe expencive to moste but pretty cheap to me. I will pay that for a 3 grade if im lucky. Now i thought i could get my wood from Japan or China or other places in Asia but moste of it comes from the US and Canada ( Canada a lot of pine). Sure shipping etc but wood wise i cant send anything back if incorrect, i just have to except it and pay ,and taking a big risk for making furniture.This makes furniture much more expencive and thats why i try to buy used wood ( floors or furniture ) or cuts that are left. So , jealous at those prices and thinking if you earn to less on your tree, then try selling it to a Chinese wood shop.;)
xander witt Russia has plenty of forests. I wonder why you can't buy Russian lumber in China?
Visited a local lumber mill a few months back and he said that a lot of his business is filling shipping containers with lifts of wood and shipping it to china.
I am surprised you get 70 cents a board foot delivered to the mill. I talked to my local mill about it, and they will pay anywhere from 20 to maybe 50 cents a board foot and maybe a buck or so for very nice veneer grade that they resell to a veneer mill in the area. I keep an eye out for trees and logs and I always tell people 10 to 15 cents (even for walnut and white oak) for me to come out a pick it up, take it to the mill, organize getting it milled, etc. It's an offer that is rarely taken up, and they usually end up getting some utterly insane price for the log somehow. But if people are used to paying 10 bucks a board foot for lumber at home stores and the like they can pay more than a buck a board feet felled for walnut, white oak or the like and in some cases 2 bucks a board foot. Meanwhile I stick to getting select and better graded trees for free from people with a little bit of work and typically 25-50 cent a board foot for milling.
This video is a couple years old. And prices are different from region to region.