Plywood

[biziedizie]

  Been seeing alot of posts about plywood and hearing you guys talking about sawing wood that you use for ply. What do you saw??? Like what size and things like that??? Out here a sht of ply is 4'/8' and is thin pieces laminated together. Am I missing something here :
  I may be missing something here and you guys my rib me about it but I had to ask as I'm curious.


     Steve

[Minnesota_boy]

Plywood is great stuff.  With it's laminations oriented differently, it has great strength and makes superb corner bracing on a building.  It goes up real fast and is quite durable in the weather, unlike waferboard that wants to delaminate if it gets a bit wet.  Plywood is expensive and requires a trip to the lumberyard or a wait for it to be delivered.

Some places in a building do not need the bracing, just a covering, and a wide plank of solid wood gives fair bracing and covers a lot of wall, and sits on the lumber pile where you stacked it after sawing, just waiting for you to use.  Best yet, you've already paid for it with your time and effort of sawing.

If you are a builder by profession and have a crew working for you, you use plywood or waferboard because it saves so much time that the difference in wages pay for the difference in cost. If you are buildiong your own building, the wages aren't the major factor and the pride in using your own wood overcomes any time saving given by using the manufactured boards.

A 4x8 sheet of plywood covers 32 square feet at once.  A sixteen  foot piece of 1x12 covers 16 square feet, and I can saw wider boards than that if I have the logs.