"Robatoy" wrote in message
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On Jan 26, 5:57 pm, dpb wrote:

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At one time I would have said: "How bad can it be?"....well..... it
CAN be bad...
I'll start off with an e-mail and a call. I need to know what it
weighs.

I've run into that with white oak "deals" on ungraded wood. One time I was
offered about 500 bf of 4/4 white oak for $250. Most of it ran 4-6" wide.
The mill owner gave me a couple pieces and said "see if you can do anything
with these" as a sample of the pile. Well, it was pretty useless except
perhaps for pallets. Every cross cut I took revealed more checks... there
wasn't a solid piece to be found. In another case, more recently, another
mill owner sold me about 400 bf for $200. In this case most of it was quite
nice and there were a couple pieces of fantastic quarter sawn with huge
fleck patterns. I'd want to put my eyes and hands on the wood before
committing to an ungraded pile of wood like that.

John