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If you’ve been trying to do any home projects lately, you may have noticed that lumber has disappeared unless you’re a rich folk able to spend roughly one million dollars per 2x4. I tell you it sucks! What in THE HELL is going on?!
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May 20, 2021 18:49
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lmao OP can't get wood
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May 20, 2021 18:53
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Bro, I ordered a couch in DECEMBER and they said JUNE and I said OK and yesterday I called and they said SEPTEMBER because of a motherfucking FOAM SHORTAGE and so I said NO WAY JOSE. I have no couch and I am screaming. Right now, all the time, forever.
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May 20, 2021 18:53
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Guess that explains why he's so proud of this.
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May 20, 2021 18:54
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I've been considering if its just actually cheaper to buy a portable mill and make my own boards. The price point is not bad, its all the time and labor and maintenance that are holding me off at this point.
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May 20, 2021 19:00
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Just glue a bunch of cardboard boxes you get from amazon together and cut to size. Bingo bango homemade lumber easy Peary
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May 20, 2021 19:03
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood  and goldmine
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May 20, 2021 19:04
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Internetjack posted:I've been considering if its just actually cheaper to buy a portable mill and make my own boards. The price point is not bad, its all the time and labor and maintenance that are holding me off at this point. This is the proper suburban dad path forward as long as you lose some fingers
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May 20, 2021 19:07
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Derpies posted:This is the proper suburban dad path forward as long as you lose some fingers As long as they are not my fingers I'd probably be okay with that.
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May 20, 2021 19:09
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood Lol it’s true
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May 20, 2021 19:14
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Fuckin mill-OPEC or whatever is squeezing this pandemic for all every possible cent. Allegedly.
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May 20, 2021 19:15
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Internetjack posted:I've been considering if its just actually cheaper to buy a portable mill and make my own boards. The price point is not bad, its all the time and labor and maintenance that are holding me off at this point. lemme see...a Stihl 661 + an Alaskan Sawmill will run you about $1500? but why stop there? get your own trailer set up, call some local tree services and they'll likely work something out with you to stop by their job sites and take logs, might even pay you a little. the thing that makes me chuckle about all of this lumber shortage is....just the one small tree company i worked for the past decade filled an entire loving parking lot with pretty much just Ash logs. a good deal of those trees were removed in anticipation of the ash borer infestation, the wood mostly unaffected, and the bugs kinda start their devastation up in the canopy anyway. that being said, urban tree removal often isn't a good setting for those 8 foot sections you really want for milling. but they make cranes for that. just one of those society-wide solutions that are free-for-all capitalism can't deliver. across the entire midwest, hundreds of thousands of trees removed due to the emerald ash borer, and then all the other trees that get removed on top of that. some get ground into mulch, many get dumped into huge lots out in the country where some random guy thinks he has a plan for it all but it just sits decaying for years. ive seen the tree graveyards, they are vast 
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May 20, 2021 19:16
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you don't even need a mill! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qz64ELkxdA&t=551s
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May 20, 2021 19:18
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why would anyone even want lumber when bricks exist? sounds like consumers are just wising up to the obvious superiority of masonry. good luck with the termites noobs lmao go chop some wood over it
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May 20, 2021 19:26
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I have a giant pile of leftover lumber in my front yard, come bring me enough rear end for a year of lunches and its yours.
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May 20, 2021 19:28
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seriously I had tree work done last year and I've got some sold 6-7 ft sections of HARD WOOD logs out back that I have no friggin idea what to do with now and I sure as poo poo can't mill them come get em.
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May 20, 2021 19:34
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Tom Gorman posted:why would anyone even want lumber when bricks exist? sounds like consumers are just wising up to the obvious superiority of masonry. good luck with the termites noobs lmao go chop some wood over it On the west coast you can't use bricks because they will fall down and kill you during the first earthquake. Guess masonry isn't so superior after all huh, tough guy?
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May 20, 2021 19:37
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood
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May 20, 2021 19:39
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Tom Gorman posted:why would anyone even want lumber when bricks exist? sounds like consumers are just wising up to the obvious superiority of masonry. good luck with the termites noobs lmao go chop some wood over it Because Americans love building their houses out of crap like 95% wood and drywall. Not only that but American boomers have fetishized wood working to such a degree that makes the pottery scenes in the movie Ghost look modest. These two facts combined with years-long lock down and stimulus checks means a bunch of people are renovating their lovely wooden homes and getting into lovely wooden hobbies.
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May 20, 2021 19:39
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20 Blunts posted:lemme see...a Stihl 661 + an Alaskan Sawmill will run you about $1500? Nah, thinking of a tow-behind. Can probably get a used one for $10k. Got a couple projects immediately that can use the lumber, and then long term of just have a wood supply. I do a moderate amount of woodworking and a bit of carpentry. Just having to take care of another piece of equipment is the off-putting thing at this point. I do have unlimited access to over 55+ 200 acres of timbered forest for supply though. Prices are high on lumber, its just a question of how much effort I want to put into it. Typing this out I suddenly realize that "hey, that might not be a bad career for a while".
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May 20, 2021 19:40
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Lumber may not be real, but the blue ox Babe's giant testicles are very real.
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May 20, 2021 19:42
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my dog died im sad posted:the blue ox Babe's giant testicles are very real. 
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May 20, 2021 19:45
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Big Beef City posted:seriously I had tree work done last year and I've got some sold 6-7 ft sections of HARD WOOD logs out back that I have no friggin idea what to do with now and I sure as poo poo can't mill them come get em. We had two three foot diameter oaks taken down two years ago and still have a massive pile of wood out back. And this is after having several people come by and take what they could load into a truck.
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May 20, 2021 20:16
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Seriously how do I convince my wife that the $4,000 we bought in lumber for our home renovation and didn't use is better to sell that erecting a semi-legal "She-Shed". Any goons here have good communication advice for the 
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May 20, 2021 20:21
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Ask her how she plans to make a PS5 out of lumber for you when you're done making the shed.
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May 20, 2021 20:27
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Derpies posted:Seriously how do I convince my wife that the $4,000 we bought in lumber for our home renovation and didn't use is better to sell that erecting a semi-legal "She-Shed". Any goons here have good communication advice for the Sell the lumber and get her one of these little shed houses  I’m thinking about getting a TugShed of my own
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May 20, 2021 20:34
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It's complex OP
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May 20, 2021 21:13
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood
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May 20, 2021 21:21
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood
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May 20, 2021 21:23
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20 Blunts posted:lmao OP can't get wood
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May 20, 2021 21:44
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Someone has the wood it just happens to be home developers building McMansions at a lightning pace. I live in one of the fastest growing counties in the US, and dense wooded areas will be cleared and then two months later there's a new 400 home subdivision. Passing through the developments is so depressing. Every house looks almost exactly the same, are the same colors, and none of them have any trees taller than maybe ten feet. I don't know how living like that would be in any way desirable. I'm very thankful that I found a place to rent in a neighborhood that was built into the landscape and not on top of it.
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May 20, 2021 21:46
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Chief McHeath posted:Someone has the wood it just happens to be home developers building McMansions at a lightning pace. I live in one of the fastest growing counties in the US, and dense wooded areas will be cleared and then two months later there's a new 400 home subdivision. this really does suck rear end.
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May 20, 2021 21:50
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In the future, wars will be fought over the last remaining old growth forests.
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May 20, 2021 22:00
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Derpies posted:this really does suck rear end. Sounds like those developments on the north end of Lehi. And the ones on the old gross Geneva site in Vineyard.
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May 20, 2021 22:02
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Dear Watson posted:Just glue a bunch of cardboard boxes you get from amazon together and cut to size. Bingo bango homemade lumber easy Peary 
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May 20, 2021 22:39
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pro starcraft loser posted:Guess that explains why he's so proud of this. Child labor is mostly illegal. You should only hire adults when you're in the home depot parking lot.
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May 20, 2021 22:50
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kntfkr posted:Bro, I ordered a couch in DECEMBER and they said JUNE and I said OK and yesterday I called and they said SEPTEMBER because of a motherfucking FOAM SHORTAGE and so I said NO WAY JOSE. I have no couch and I am screaming. Right now, all the time, forever. a loving foam shortage?
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May 20, 2021 23:43
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kntfkr posted:Bro, I ordered a couch in DECEMBER and they said JUNE and I said OK and yesterday I called and they said SEPTEMBER because of a motherfucking FOAM SHORTAGE and so I said NO WAY JOSE. I have no couch and I am screaming. Right now, all the time, forever. 
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May 20, 2021 23:59
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Derpies posted:Seriously how do I convince my wife that the $4,000 we bought in lumber for our home renovation and didn't use is better to sell that erecting a semi-legal "She-Shed". Any goons here have good communication advice for the i dunno man, it's always hard to tell with these he said she-shed situations
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May 21, 2021 00:07
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Quotey posted:a loving foam shortage? can't get wood you can't make foam 
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