The Forestry Forum
General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: woodman on December 17, 2002, 08:21:18 PM
Talked to a guy today who buys white pine from over seas at 37 cents a board ft. and thats shipping how do thay make money.
pine prices are funny. I have seen nicer logs go for $500/MBF yet around here home depot has their so called #2 at around two bucks and prime for around $3.35. A local sawmill wants around $2.00 for planed clears, yet I can buy whole truck loads of log run pine for $100/truck. seems it is getting harder to do anything with the lower grades. the pallet contract I had was at 250/MBF and he would not take any knots over 3/4 inch but would take stain. and who knows about foriegn markets.
Jim giv me a call if you want to cut six quarter for under 37 a bf by the tk load year round all you can cut.
Hey Jim,
I might be interested in that too.
It all depends on what it has to grade at or look like. I can get 30,000 bd ft of lower quality any time I want it. but it is either small, stained, or knotty. I pay around a nickel so still would be profit if no delivery.