Red Oak Lumber Sale

[D L Ames]

The Habitat for Humanity Reuse center in Raleigh just called me with a deal on rough sawn red oak. They have 5/4 and 8/4 in stock with vary widths of 8-14". All of it is priced at $3.00 /LF.

D L

 

[Ray Martin]

D L,

Is that $3 per LF and not BF? in various widths? That makes it sound like some widths will be a good deal and others will not...

Ray

 

[chris99z71]

I was there this morning and I'll confirm $3/LF. I'd imagine they do it by linear foot so that they dont' have to explain boardfeet to customers and volunteers.
Pretty good stuff. Mostly 8" wide, generous 5/4, probably a true 6/4. Lots of 8/4 mixed in. Some of the bigger pieces have some considerable warpage. Also some 3x3 stock, and 4x4+. One real nice piece of rough RO 6x6 about 13' long...and straight.
Another piece was 8/4 x 20" wide and 7' long. That one had me excited until I unburied it and found that it had a huge warp in the middle.
Even in the rough, I could tell that there was some considerable color variation. Don't plan on getting it all for one big project because you'll pull your hair out trying to get it to all match. In all, they had 3 tightly packed racks of about 3' x 4' x 8-12'.
At $3/lf, the 8" wide 4/4 is no deal. Some of the wider stock (12-20") isn't a bad deal though. I'm going to check back a few times this week to see if the price goes down or if it looks like it's selling.

 

[vbgregg]

Is this place open on Sundays?

Gregg