To a carpenter, everything looks like a 2x4

When putting a new kitchen in maybe 15-20 yrs ago , my building materials guy had 3/4 cabinet grd birch plywood on for $39.99 , long time employee helped me load when he looked at slip , he say mistake made , goes to office , comes back and says , trees cut in Canada boated to China made into plywood boated back , he was just shaking his head as I drove away …..
 
Super smooth luan plywood used to make shipping crates for this Japanese machinery. I want to
To a carpenter, everything looks like a 2x4
rescue the wood!
 
My original cryptic title was referencing the tendency, to "go with what you know", and not look outside the circle of the comfort zone. 💡

Assumptions.
 
Speaking of McMansions, there's one going in on the 55 acres behind me ..... cost = $2.5 M, and that does not include the $.75M he paid for the land.

I would like to have what he has in his access road. His driveway will put many county roads to shame.

Slick
 
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texasSlick said:
Speaking of McMansions, there's one going in on the 55 acres behind me ..... cost = $2.5 M, and that does not include the $.75M he paid for the land.

I would like to have what he has in his access road. His driveway will put many county roads to shame.

Slick
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Right behind you?
Sounds like you read the ground/location in a very timely manner.
 
Sweden is mostly covered by forests. 2by4 and tire size is almost the only things using imperial measurements. 2by4 has increased to $3 per meter.
Saw dust has become expensive because used pelletized for home heating. So sawmills switching to thicker sawblades.
 
the first picture was luan. These last pictures look like rotary cut, hem-fir, which is a hybrid that is the re-planting of choice mostly now. The hybridization brings the quality of the resulting tree up from hemlock's quality and it grows fast like a doug fir... I was told by some college boys that the "scientifical" equation was: This + that = more money faster But, I wouldn't know because I'm just a dumb carpenter... 🤣
 
Hem-fir here in bc is just a mixed species type of lumber, like S.P.F. ( Spruce/Pine/Fir)
We used to joke that with both of those lumber types a piece of good Douglas fir had been passed over the pile to create the fir content.
It seemed that Hem-Fir was about 99% Western Hemlock. According to the grading rules Hem-Fir is a mix of two species, Pacific Hemlock and Amabilis Fir. Neither are great for house framing but Pacific Hemlock is the least desirable of the two.The lumber companies created the Hem-Fir label in order to market the Pacific Hemlock, which we have a lot of and which no one really wanted to use again after trying it once.

Now things may have changed and Hem Fir might now be an actual hybrid species in other places. In BC it's still just a marketing name for Pacific Hemlock.

Glen
 
o0norton0o said:
the first picture was luan. These last pictures look like rotary cut, hem-fir, which is a hybrid that is the re-planting of choice mostly now. The hybridization brings the quality of the resulting tree up from hemlock's quality and it grows fast like a doug fir... I was told by some college boys that the "scientifical" equation was: This + that = more money faster But, I wouldn't know because I'm just a dumb carpenter... 🤣
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Nobody ever implied carpenters were dumb, this thread was my way of bringing into focus the propensity to "go with what you know".

It takes literal offshoots here and there. 🍻😎

I RESPECT the vocations. A lot.
 
worntorn said:
Hem-fir here in bc is just a mixed species type of lumber, like S.P.F. ( Spruce/Pine/Fir)
We used to joke that with both of those lumber types a piece of good Douglas fir had been passed over the pile to create the fir content.
It seemed that Hem-Fir was about 99% Western Hemlock. According to the grading rules Hem-Fir is a mix of two species, Pacific Hemlock and Amabilis Fir. Neither are great for house framing but Pacific Hemlock is the least desirable of the two.The lumber companies created the Hem-Fir label in order to market the Pacific Hemlock, which we have a lot of and which no one really wanted to use again after trying it once.

Now things may have changed and Hem Fir might now be an actual hybrid species in other places. In BC it's still just a marketing name for Pacific Hemlock.

Glen
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From what I've gathered, the replanting of clearcuts are often these hybrids that grow faster, so they are more profitable. (You know,... America, where we care about everything that's right until it cuts into the profits 🤣 )
 
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