New to the Milling

[deadfall]

What's wrong with me? Too old?  Why does it seem to me we should all have the right to provide our own shelter, in a manner we can afford, on land we nominally own and pay the taxes on?  All they should say about it is that you can't represent it as being to code if you go to sell or rent it out (and the price reflects this).  If it's all transparent, whose business is it but those involved? 

Now I'm going out to edge some flitches for the neighbor's kid's tiny house.  Rough cut western red cedar for a nice light and strong frame.  No code for those... yet.  Built the floor last week.  It's Doug fir.



Got the insulation in and the plywood on at dark.

[WV Sawmiller]

Might never have any problems in your lifetime but might be a bear to sell if not built to code.

(May be a way to get even with your kids - leave them a white elephant they can't unload as their inheritance. Then again - they are likely the ones deciding which nursing home you go into).

[Magicman]

I am only a few counties South of the OP and thankfully the "codes" have not reached me yet.  I have had to turn down several framing lumber jobs in his county.   :-\

[4x4American]

Magicmike has a good thread somewhere on sawing framing lumber

[East ky logging]

Thankfully we don't have those codes here where I live yet either. I can't say I ever saw a house fall down because of what kind of lumber it used if it was properly built. And when mother nature comes through she doesn't care if the lumber has a stamp on it or not.

[daniel372]

thanks for all the replys... I think it ridiculous to. i am going to make a few calls today and see if it will even be worth it. The building dept told me the minimum grade is 2 for my wood.

[Kbeitz]

What does it cost to get wood graded ?

[deadfall]

I can't say I ever saw a house fall down because of what kind of lumber it used if it was properly built. And when mother nature comes through she doesn't care if the lumber has a stamp on it or not.

The building I am wanting to build, the shop/barn, is here on top of the middle of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Fault.  It has a nominal repetition period of 300 years, with evidence of 8.5 to 9.5 Richter events.  The last one happened 315.6 years ago.  I am endeavoring to build a building to withstand such an event. I am at about 300 feet elevation, over thirty miles from the sea, and have found a cow shark tooth 500 yards from here, and a hundred feet higher.  We humans can get pretty caught up in our views of things, and pretty haughty when given a little authority.  Few people alive today have much of a clue where Mother Nature's limits of power end.  The good folks looking out for our safety should just let us have our fun.

[Nomad]

What does it cost to get wood graded ?

     IIRC (and I may not :)  The SPIB wants $500 per day, plus expenses.  That's Southern Pine Inspection Bureau.