Lumber

[jeff...]

What's the shortest piece of lumber you can buy at a lumber yard? I guess I'm asking what are the common lengths for standard dimensional hardwood lumber and do the carry anything below 4'?

Thanks

 

[nelsone]

Wurth Wood Products (Charlotte Hardwood) will cut a piece to any length as long as what is left is at least 6' in length.

 

[jeff...]

Wurth Wood Products (Charlotte Hardwood) will cut a piece to any length as long as what is left is at least 6' in length.

I'm trying to figure out what would be the shortest piece of hardwood lumber I would hang on to. 6' seems reasonable but I may go down to 4'. I'm toying with the idea of building an external insulated storage locker complete with a dehumidifier to store kiln dried lumber. thinking on stacking lumber vertically, the locker will have a 9' ceiling and I think be an 8' x10'. 8 x 10. With a 9' ceiling I can get 8' boards in with no problem. I really want to get all the lumber out of my shop, clean it out and rearrange a few things so I can start building furniture in there again. this way I could just bring in just the materials for what I'm going to build. Right now my shop seems to have become lumber storage with no room left to build furniture.

 

[ptt49er]

FWIW...I could probably get away with using 4' pieces on a lot of the projects I (well the LOML) has planned for me to do. But that's just MTCW.

 

[jimwill48]

I would also agree 4' seems to be a good size. A lot of my projects are in need of 36" or 48" lengths.

JW

 

[clowman]

As stated above, and in my experience, most lumber yards I have visited will let me cut any length, as long as I put back at least 6feet.

 

[NCPete]

as long as I put back at least 6feet.

Wher'djaget the extra feet??:lol: I only gots 2:rolf:

 

[William Roscoe]

I've got the same problem. Before you start on this, you should consider a larger bldg. so you won't be faced with the same problem a year or 2 down the road. You can never have too much storage space;-)

 

[Kyle]

Jeff,

I also sell shorts bundles that are very reasonably priced. Shorts to me are dried pieces (Air or Kiln) that are less than 3 feet in length and range 3" to 12" wide and a mix of 4/4 and 5/4 stock. Usually 15-20 bf under 35/bucks per bundle.

6 feet to 8 feet goes for less than 8+.

Its all good wood just limited by the makers creativity.