My sister called a lumber yard for poplar
S4S get this
3/4x2x14 foot $163
3/4x3x14 foot $245
3/4x4x14 foot $326
Thats like $93 a BF :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
of course thats figuring it at 3/4 thickness and they are probably figuring the BF before milling but
still!!!
To quote a friend of mine
HOLY GUACAMOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody has got to be making a mistake. She called back but they had left for the day. I can't wait till tomorrrow to see what she finds out
WOW.That must be some DanG nice Poplar
It must be burl ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
3/4x2x14 foot $163
3/4x3x14 foot $245
3/4x4x14 foot $326
Something is missing here :P :P :P Thats for how many peices ???
If not I am going to the bush and cut some poplar . Well actualy I am going to cut some , but I was going to use it as flooring in the new house .
I buy it down here for about $1.85 a bd ft, if they get that up there, wheres a good motel to stay while I deliver some really find poplar? 8)
Quote from: isawlogs on January 10, 2006, 05:41:45 PM
Something is missing here :P :P :P Thats for how many peices ???
If not I am going to the bush and cut some poplar . Well actualy I am going to cut some , but I was going to use it as flooring in the new house .
I think it was the persons brain that gave her the prices!
Quote from: Texas Ranger on January 10, 2006, 05:44:42 PM
I buy it down here for about $1.85 a bd ft, if they get that up there, wheres a good motel to stay while I deliver some really find poplar? 8)
I all ready got that angle covered, gonna truck it down from da buckeye and stay at my sisters
For that kind of money I can deliver from here and still make out OK . :)
I am getting $1.75, just this afternoon. Now that will be kiln dried as well, with no surfacing.
My guess....
Price for lineal foot (move the decimal point to left a couple of spaces).
The one REAL lumber yard here prices everything but framing lumber like that.
Brian
Quartlow,
Did you get my PM? It won't be a problem bringing you some popular. Of course, if i want to be competitive with the local market, I'll have to raise my rates ....through the roof and then some! My normal for YP is $1.25/ bf, I could probably do a better deal for a FF member on a one time sale deal.
I think WWW has a point about the pricing she was quoted.
VA-Sawyer
From TRANGER:
"I buy it down here for about $1.85 a bd ft, if they get that up there, wheres a good motel to stay while I deliver some really find poplar?"
Shoot Don, just mail it to them first class postage and forget the trip yourself. At those prices you could still make good money.
Wait a minute here !!!!
Is this guy you're calling the same guy who had the $30,000 black walnut tree on e-bay that he wanted to sell as a live tree? Remember him? The one standing a couple of inches from the end of a single wide trailer???
It's gotta be the same guy :D
Market value for FAS 4/4 poplar is in the $750 range. That's green, rough, trailerload lots and a good quantity of longs.
one sixty five a foot !! retail lumber jargain....
everyone need to know what they are asking and saying.... The real (Crop) doesn't have a clue..... It's all lineal to them and they don't even know what that means.....
Check the decimal "One dollar and sixty five cents" a foot sounds OK ??? 3/4x2x14 about $ 23.00 a stick a little much for my blood.. At 1.65 a BFD would be about $ 2.75 for the stick. that would be more like it.
GOOD LUCK !! ;)
Like I said she is gonna call them back this morning. I should know the real price by the time I come in for lunch ;D
The big box around here wants $3.60 bf.
I'd be happy to sell you anything in my lumber pile, anything, for half that price. :D Heck, I'll even go down to $35 a board foot and deliver it too.
Ok the truth is revealed, the girl on the phone could't place decimal points
Now we have gone to the other end
3/4x2x14 foot $1.63
3/4x3x14 foot $2.45
3/4x4x14 foot $3.26
Thats more like it.
At least I'm nmot in sticker shock anymore ;D ;D
Around here they always price it by the 100' feet, so if you called about 3/4x2x14 they would say $163
But that would be for 100' of it. ;)
Sometimes the kid that answers the phone isn't all the sharpest tool in the store. ::)
Quote from: Murf on January 11, 2006, 02:31:18 PM
Sometimes the kid that answers the phone isn't all the sharpest tool in the store. ::)
I usualy get the one with the broken lead to answer . ::)
Here's a retail price list from Raleigh, NC just for another comparison. They weren't the cheapest but usually had good stock and selection when I was there.
http://www.capitolcitylumber.com/hardwoods.cfm
Quartlow,
I'm still confused, are those prices for the 14' board?
If so that is CHEEEEP for these parts.
Brian
Quote from: WeeksvilleWoodWorx on January 12, 2006, 12:13:52 AM
Quartlow,
I'm still confused, are those prices for the 14' board?
If so that is CHEEEEP for these parts.
Brian
Brian, I didn't talk to them, my sis did. Which means I may not know till I get there. Idid explain the differance between a BF a Linear foot, and she is smart enough to ask the right questions. According to what they told her that was per piece. If it is thats like what, .80 a BF ? I think our lumber bubble just burst :D