[AT] Lumber prices

[Stephen Offiler]

I can see where you'd call it greed, and I am not necessarily disagreeing
with you, Bo, but there's a lot of moving parts here.

Look at it from the standpoint of the family that owns the local lumber
yard.  They have bills to pay - maybe the yard still has a mortgage, and
there's electricity, payroll, benefits, taxes, etc.  They probably do OK
when business is normal, say there's a million board feet going out the
door at $1/bdft, so they bring in a million dollars.  Point is that most of
it goes to paying those bills I just mentioned.  But what about now?  There
is a lumber shortage.  They can't get lumber as easily any more.  They
might be able to move only half a million board feet, but those bills are
still there, so they need to put the price up to $2/bd ft to bring in a
million dollars to pay the bills.

SO


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:59 AM Bo Hinch <bohinch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't necessarily agree with what the video is representing . In my area
> ( Sulphur Louisiana ) , lumber prices doubled and sometimes tripled from
> one week till the next week . It can be blamed on hurricanes , which we
> went through back to back last year , or forest fires last year but my
> thoughts are people being greedy and ripping us off and there is NOTHING we
> can do except pay the price , or , do without . Same thing with the steel
> building components , prices tripled with-in two weeks . Just my opinion of
> how we are being taken advantage of .
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:36 PM Roger Moffat <rogerkiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Saw this on Facebook this evening - seems to sum up the situation
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:42 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I happened across this video just a few days ago.  Several factors, but
>> the central theme boils down to basic supply and demand.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/3Ssa7yooX3k
>>
>> SO
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:03 PM John Maddock <agtronixjv at bigpond.com>
>> wrote:
>> Supply and demand ?  Maybe!
>>
>>
>> https://www.timberbiz.com.au/us-lumber-prices-soar-demand-is-high-but-stumpage-is-static/
>>
>> JV
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> What the heck is going on with lumber prices?  I needed a sheet of OSB
>> which was once $10 a is now $35 a sheet?
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>> Mike M
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