Wood shortage? Um, no ...

The military is buying it all

Dude it is inflation.

Look no further than gangs of wall street traders manipulating the markets with no recourse as reward for supporting a dictator.

fixed that for you

Lumber trucks busy here in Oregon, too.

Is it going to China?

Wall Street is evil.. Coke can't buy aluminum across the street for their cans.. It's put on the market. shipped, trucked, warehoused, across the united states and shipped back to Coke so every crook get's their piece of the pie..

This isn't just Enron version 2.0, it's Enron version 92612.1116...

Quit whining and be smarter. If you are a builder and your don’t own lumber futures you’re an idiot.

I bought a big truck this winter and I bought oil and gas stocks, calls, and futures. Done VERY well and if gas goes up even more I win. If it goes down my costs are less. Businesses hedge, and so do smart households.

Let them sit on it, while paying on their working capital loans, then watch them sell at bargain basement prices.

Let them choke.

WTF 6 trucks a DAY ????
logging herein oregon up the McKenzie we have a truck maybe 2 every MINUTE!!!

No I agree there is NO shortage of wood being logged and milled . Everyone is literally at capacity.

stolen elections have consequences

The price is controlled by the ones that supply the retailers...

Loggers and lumber mill workers are busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest. So busy they can't take time to post on GLP.

They making huge piles of money!

Me too ! I have a few thing I want to build but I'm not until lumber prices return to normal. I'm not buying so much as a toothpick! Fuck'em!

In the past few year, the national forests in Michigan have been aggressively harvested. I always wonder where all the wood is going, and who is profiting.

Working with lumber is hard work, and people get payed more to stay home and play video games on the couch. Drivers too, so it's a supply chain problem making wood so expensive, not a shortage of product.

Please start a thread when you begin to get slack.

No, trees are being taken from the national forests at an alarming rate. There is no slow down in tree harvesting.

I live near a logger, and I've never seen so many raw logs piled up. He's obviously not getting paid extra so he's sitting on it. The lumber mills and the retailers are stepping on it for no reason.

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Not seeing anything like that here, so it's just you experiencing the shortage.

They are selling it to the CCP!

Your fresh water also.

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There was a video out months ago where a homeowner remodeling his house came across stacks & stacks of lumber being hidden & stored away. It looked like a deliberate effort to keep an inordinate amount of lumber out of circulation !!

What about us loggers? Working men who like to stand up after they've taken a poo and turn around and cut their poo in half with their urine.

====>>>> Wouldn’t doubt it... After all 130,000 acres of Texas land will take some time to developi.

Biden is most likely buying wood from China and getting a kickback, all the while virtually shutting down America's wood sales. He's done it with oil and beef so far.
He is hellbent on ruining America.

It's to destroy the middle class. Good luck building a house making 75k a year when it costs $150k alone in lumber to build a 1200 sq ft house.

May as well be making min wage living in government provided housing

Mckenzie river used to be my fishing spot for years.

Its part of the push to keep single family dwellings from being built and to push giant apartment style buildings as homes.

It's the treated wood for housing. There might be other gouging going on on untreated but it's affecting the smaller builders the most. My friends folks sold their place and were going to build a house, all plans done and ready to go... then the builder called them in and said sorry it will cost an extra 100k. So they are living in his driveway in their RV. At least it's a nice RV...The big builders have prices locked in under contract, at least they should...