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Originally Posted by John Mercier
The lumber yards all order from the mills.
PT comes from down south, where as most dimensional comes from up north, and the finish board comes from mills in New England.
So a lift comes in graded at a certain grade, but once picked through, what is mostly left is not decent quality.
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John, so do you think it's a case of timing to get decent quality from a mill? If so, "graded at a certain grade" for a lift doesn't apply to the whole lift. That becomes a QC/sales issue.
It must be difficult for the yards. From what I understand, boards these days start off with young trees grown fast, cut economically (for the mill), then dried fast so that they still have internal stresses from moisture continuing to evaporate. Contractors and consumers need to use them fast for framing.