re: Watching the price of lumber

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Why would they? They are making record profits with less overhead. Fewer mills mean fewer employees, and things to break down.

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You realize expansion would be 3rd parties right? Outside competition? If profit is that great, someone else will join until it comes back down to being very competitive again.

And concrete over 130 a yard.

*Cough *cough felony charge

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Huntington or Diboll

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Technically Diboll, but actually even further in the woods of Bulah.

I remember riding my bike through clearcuts only to play around in the piles of hardwoods Temple wouldn’t take.


I have to give you some credit for even knowing Diboll or huntignton are towns. They are deep Pineywoods towns that not many people even know about.

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The price of lumber is going up. The price for timber is not going up.

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this. There is a shortage of lumber not a shortage of trees in the forest

I worked a couple months in Deep East Texas. Slowed the frick down driving through Corrigan and Diboll.

This was mid 2000’s when pretty much anyone you talked to could tell you about the mills consolidating and offshoring to China so they could send back composite pulp junk.

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With so many shutting down in the past couple of years, and others only running minimal output the last year thank to China virus, the supply of lumber is low.

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Just for the record, a couple of corrections

1) 40% of the pine sawmills in the Southeast shut down between 2008 and 2010. But none have shut down recently. Several new ones have been built and several more are under construction.

2) none are running on minimal output due to covid. Every mill is running wide open. Most are running 20 hours a day, 6 days a week.

3) the primary item that is in short supply is SPF studs. This is because Canada has grossly over harvested their forests for decades. And they can't hide it any more. Several sawmills close every year in Canada. And that pace of closures will accelerate. So the lack of SPF studs is creating a domino effect into other products.

4) the only part of the world that is currently growin an excess of softwood logs, and has the infrastructure to support increased manufacturing, is the Southeast USA. We are the Saudi Arabia of pine timber. The world will be turning to us to supply fiber over the coming decades.

How is all of this affecting the the pulp wood haulers or whatever they are .

The log trucks in North La

A friend of mine used to run a crew that did 100-120 loads a week and he made a decent living off of it.

He sold out 4 years ago

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One way or another, the free market will work itself out. Just a matter of time and how much patience you have if you have a project you're trying to complete

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I've got three words for ya: "LX25 Portable Sawmill." Wood-Mizer is selling their entry level mill for $3,300.

Buddy of mine has a larger model, and he's making bank filling orders for small GCs around the area. Buy one of these and cut down trees to build your house/carport/shed/whatever, then sell the excess at the current, historical prices. You could easily pay for the mill itself, and you could probably get a few extra shillings on top of that if you're willing to keep milling.

No you didn’t