From Zero Hedge: There is no shortage of lumber.
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i'm disappointed in zero hedge for this article... super lazy and playing into a bullshit conspiracy theory.
LUMBER is not PLYWOOD
we do indeed have plenty of lumber
we however do not have any fucking plywood or osb.
you can't build a standard stick framed house without both. if there is no sheetwood, the lumber stacks up.
most of our sheetwood comes from canada, who are fucked due to covid-1984 response.
our sheetwood mfg's are running full tilt, making fat cash on the price increase.
all the workers are getting fat overtime, the owners are making fat bank selling it, they aren't going to do anything to change that.
people keep saying "why don't they just increase mfg capacity?"
it's because as soon as this boom is over, they don't want to be stuck with the added costs associated with plant expansions they don't need.
they are just going to keep cranking out money until the shortage is over.
it's not a conspiracy, it's just what happens when authoritarian assholes in canada shut down sheetwood manufacturing that we are depending on.
I work for an OSB mill in Canada. My company has several OSB mills and none were shut for one single day due to COVID. I am not aware of any OSB mills shut down for COVID. One plywood mill was shut for 2 weeks over a year ago but nothing since. 1 shuttered mill has started back up in the last 6 months and one more is coming online. Supply is outstripping demand. Nothing more nothing less.
i don't believe you at all... i know people in the business, they all tell me that work was slowed down at all the canadian mfg's due to covid.
if you're going to claim thats not the case i'm going to call you a liar.
either way the fact remains that LUMBER is not SHEETWOOD and using pictures of lumber to claim a sheetwood shortage is artificial is retarded.
2x4’s keep rising near me, it’s insane. They used to be 2.78 at my local Home Depot. Recently they’ve been 6.75. I just checked today and they’re 7.98
yeah the entire thing is getting crazy, lots of different parts of the industry are jumping in on the price hike.
but the margins on sheetwood are absolutely insane
for a minute there plywood was cheaper than OSB... which makes zero fucking sense in a normal market.
Eight fucking dollars for a 2x4???? Holy fuck!
I haven't needed to buy lumber for a few years. I was going to rebuild my deck this summer. That shit aint happening now. No way. Well ... not unless Silver does the moonshot in the next couple of months.
The problem is the interdependence on other nations for such mfg. Bring it inside the nation, supply issues become less of a concern (and less of a wallet pinch)
you will never hear me say we should outsource anything.
this is a prime example as to why.
we were our strongest when we made everything here.
cut regs, increase taxes on shit that comes here, offer trade school scholarships instead of SJW interpretive dance study indoctrination.
...all the things.
the only way you can make money on your own anymore is to get into the gig economy or find a niche you can work and hope nobody else sees how much money you're making and decides to steal your business.