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In a week or so I'm going with a friend to a place where there's a lot
of ungraded rough cut lumber racked, stickered and shed dried, and try
to ascertain about how much it's worth. I'm pretty sure it'll all be
4/4. Most of it will be white oak with smaller amounts of cherry and
probably other local Wisconsin hardwoods. I think we'll be able to
determine what species we're dealing with, and how much twisting/
cupping/splitting/knotholes we find. Judging it for figure I think is
going to be a problem.

I've got price lists for several of the lumber houses in the area. I'm
thinking rather than try and grade the whole barnfull, put a price on
it lower than the usual price of something like No. 2 Common for that
species and tell the buyer it's a mix. Anybody got any suggestions.

I'm afraid that for now I'm constrained to keep quiet about the exact
location and amount available. I know I'll still get "You better throw
that on my pickup" suggestions and actually that might yet happen, but
I'm looking for tips on how one might go about inspecting a large
amount of stacked lumber and get an idea what's there.


You're not a grader. It's a specialty. "Log run" is a recognized way of
selling lumber. Comes in below #1 common, perhaps #2. Buy log run and
close-stack the lumber, measure length/width of each tier, multiply by X/4
and you have your BF. I use the distance between wheel wells in the pickup,
and most lumber here is 100", so it's 32 per tier times thickness.