On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:53:18 -0500, dpb wrote the
following:

Swingman wrote:
...

Often the past year or so an entire pallet of HD tubafours is dripping
wet 'peel cores' from the plywood mills ... this stuff does not readily
accept the treatment and warps like crazy after it dries to around 30%
... an entirely useless product, sold at a premium price to those who
don't care, or know the difference.

There are a couple of the low-price farm stores here carrying line fence
posts from them...

That's the main reason I don't do that style of line fence. I haven't
seen any good stock in town anywhere and half the new line fences of
the peeler style are warped as hell, up to 3" off true in any given
green peeler.

I suggested that another client get her own "cherrytone" landscaping
peelers because I would have to charge her for the winnowing process
at an hourly rate. Her husband has a pickup and they bought the first
batch, so the suggestion wasn't as far out of line as it may have
sounded.

There is far too much crap wood being sold everywhere nowadays. I
asked the guys at both local lumberyards why they didn't have a
slightly better grade of PT lumber. He said that people wouldn't pay
for it. I told him that my clients and I had discussed it and all
would be happy to pay up to 50% extra to get lumber which was sound,
which wouldn't warp as it dried, and was properly dried after
treatment. They suggested my telling it to the owners, who are
seldome around. Oh well...

--
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin