On 3/27/2021 3:06 AM, Bill wrote:
Michael Trew wrote:
On 3/26/2021 4:50 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:


Weird question.

I'm looking to throw up a shack. A temporary building, not
intended to last more than a couple years.

Yet every lumber yard I've found advertises "premium quality"
lumber. Where can one go for "Good enough" lumber for those projects
which just have to be "done"? Somewhere above the stuff used by
"B.A.R.F. Construction" ('cost a whole lot less, looks just a good.),
though.

Or am I stuck with having to contact a mill somewhere for the
grade 4 boards (every board guaranteed to have a knot, bark, cup, bow,
or for not more money a combination of two or more.)?

{Company I worked at used that stuff for shipping commercial
countertops. The counter tops were first rate, the 'crates' - not so
much B-) }

--
pyotr filipivich
"Have the Anarchists ever stopped to consider that if they bring
down the American Government, there will be no one to protect
them from the rednecks?"

My father has a huge "burning man" style bonfire every year... he goes
to Home Depot or wherever, and asks the manager for a discount on
damaged lumber. I'm not sure what discount they work out, but he gets
anything warped, bowed, cracked, split, or major knots at a good
discount... half off, maybe? YMMV, but it can't hurt to ask the
manager at your local lumber yard or big box/home improvement store.

My local Menards or Home Depot has a "scrap box" where they sell pieces
really cheap. I don't recall seeing anything longer than 3 feet there,
but I don't frequent it. Great for kids though!

Ours doesn't have that, but he was able to bargain full 8, 10, and 12"
damaged board down. I do miss going to Menards; it was a little over an
hour drive to the nearest one, but I spent thousands there when
remodeling my house, and with that 11% mail in rebate, I got enough back
to go buy a brand new water heater, at no cost to me!