50- 4 ft
Someone is making killing on wood products.?ÿ I have to put in a pergola latter this summer.?ÿ I'm not lookin forward to loosing my left leg for four cedar 6x6's.
Looks like it is time to double my price for a stake on construction jobs.
A bundle of lath has always been $28-32 here I think.
when from $27 to $47 here in Louisiana. 1x2x48
Really don't know about prices now but up to 2019 we bought lath (1/2"x1"x36") and hubs (1"x2"x18") in lots of 5,000 ea. for $23/bundle ea. at least every 4-5 weeks. We were "Central Florida Sheltered Workshop"'s, (for those with disabilities) largest client for 16 straight years. We also funded their annual Christmas Party during that time. The new owner of my old business continues this practice.
This is one of the things, helping Community funded disadvantaged small businesses, your business should do to gain admiration and recognition from community leaders. Your name will be recognized via "networking" throughout the business and political community. Habitat for Humanity is also an organization you can provide a welcome and necessary service to. You may not receive any financial benefit, but sometimes having lots of free praise publicity goes much further in the long run. Think about it. ?????ÿ
I built a woodshop a couple of years ago, then I had to use it as my surveying office since I turned mine over to my wife last year so she could work from home. I had always wanted a sawmill, and I have a good spot for one and a kiln in my barn next to the woodshop, so a couple of months ago I ordered one. Nothing fancy, no hydraulics, (I have an excavator for handling logs) but can handle a 36? log. The last delivery date they gave me was end of September. ?ÿApparently everybody wants one. ?ÿI scavenged a bunch of nice logs from a couple of road projects we were clearing on, and have a couple hundred acres of hardwood here, so maybe my retirement will be full of lumber cutting. Pretty sure the bottom will fall out of lumber prices about then.?ÿ
That is precisely how things work in my world.?ÿ Sold all my beans at about $11.30 up from $10.50 at harvest and far better than the $8.40 last season.?ÿ Now they are up to almost $16.?ÿ Who would have ever thought of that?
I have a wood shop downstairs from my office. I occasionally cut stakes from scrap I have laying around. I have a 2x10x10 that??s been hanging out for about a year now. I eyeball it every morning as I head upstairs wondering if it??s worth more as one piece or cut up into stakes.?ÿ
50- 4 ft
Where are you buying your stakes? Selby's has been charging us between $40 and $45 for a bundle of 50 3' stakes.
@hi-staker I??m not sure where the illustrious potentate of supplies is doing his shopping ( obviously not Selby??s) but he just ordered a new stock up, and this was a new high.
Wait a minute, here.?ÿ You willingly climb stairs to get to your office??????????ÿ I gave up stair climbing many years ago.?ÿ Heck, when I was in college I would do my best to schedule classes when they were being held on the ground floor.?ÿ I am a true flatlander.
I remember being at my ex-wife's aunt's house south of Pittsburgh, PA, up in the mountains the locals call hills.?ÿ To get to her garden behind the house required climbing up steps built into the slope.?ÿ I told her I would eat my peas out of a can long before she would catch me climbing stairs to tend to them in her garden.
It you don't mind asking and then sending me a PM, I sure works like to grab a pallet load of stakes.
@flga-2-2
That message is worth many attaboy's for sure, for sure.?ÿ Good deeds that are genuinely selfless frequently provide returns you did not seek, but can accept.?ÿ The network keeps food on my table.?ÿ No need to advertise.
I can??t be around things that cut wood unless a medical helicopter is standing by. ????ÿ
@flga-2-2
Years ago I briefly worked in a cedar wood shop that manufactured patio furniture.?ÿ Dozens of table saws and routers.?ÿ I've never seen so many people with missing fingers in one place in my life.?ÿ ???ª?ÿ
