Oops, forgot the most important part:
“Replacing 12,000 structures would require an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 truckloads of lumber, Goodman said. A 48-foot flatbed truck can haul 45,500 to 52,000 pounds of lumber, according to Union Pacific. The number of pounds per 1,000 board feet varies by tree species, but the Global Trade Network has figures ranging from 2,250 to 5,350 pounds per 1,000 board feet of freshly cut lumber.”
How much can an EV truck carry?
Pretty sure 12,000+ won’t be replaced.
Thanks for posting this, but this guys numbers are a bit off. More importantly, while this will create a ripple in the market. It’s just a drop in the production bucket.
My biggest supplier produces 17 Million BF A DAY!! or around 950 trucks of green doug fir per day. While their production covers many species and grades, by far the bulk of of it goes to housing. This is just one, albeit, very large western producer.
Lastly, with all the BS building codes and rules here in California, I guess it will take 6 plus years to fill 75% of those empty lots.
Our new home in Tennessee required THREE tractor-trailer rigs to haul in the lumber/materials and it’s only 2,080 SF over a foxblock/concrete basement structure with log siding..
I think the estimates in this article are a little LOW, considering.
Also, didn’t Pedo Joe Biden just lock up another several bizillion acres of America’s forests by making them national parks unavailable to logging, mining, drilling, hunting (in some cases) and/or even hiking/camping?
Who’s ready for $90 a sheet 1/2” plywood - again? Tariffs on our timber-rich neighbor to the north?
And don’t forget the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act which some economists say was a major contributing factor to the GREAT depression of 1929?
I got mine. Gonna make popcorn and sit on the deck watching the sun - and maybe the nation - set.
It would be nice to eventually see a letter of thanks to Boise-Cascade once things are moving forward.
Somehow I don’t see it coming.
Sounds like lumber is a good wall street investment.
But think of how many board feet of lumber they could get out of one sequoia tree?
Is it legal to cut down trees in California?
Lumber? Brought in with fossil fuels? Time tor Californians to make a principled stand...for the Earf.