Remember when....

[rusty]

You could buy 36 inch planks?

Of white Cedar?

[lbgradwell]

No.

[Papaw]

No.

[OilyRascal]

Not white cedar - but I know of a sawmill where the guy has a stash of 48"x5/4x16' yellow pine - .40/bd ft when I last bought it.

[john k]

Not there when it was sold, but in my barn there are some wide boards.  Several inside sheathing boards are 36inch, and a few 40 inches.   The boards show nail holes, telling me they were used.   I wonder what they tore down to salvage the lumber as the barn was built in the 1890s. 

[HeelSpur]

LOL, I can hear it now, " hey Joe, grab me one of those boards and hand it up to me ".

Never seen one that wide, saw a few 2 footers in my years.

[Fins/413]

Sure don't, but then I'm only 60

[amertrac]

there was a saw mill not far from our farm and the man would custom cut and the center cut of  the tree was left to the biggest cut of the tree . I have heard of 48 in but never saw one. we used to have big trees but not any more . they seem to die off before they get to 24in   bob w.

[Branson]

there was a saw mill not far from our farm and the man would custom cut and the center cut of  the tree was left to the biggest cut of the tree . I have heard of 48 in but never saw one. we used to have big trees but not any more . they seem to die off before they get to 24in   bob w.

When we were rehabbing the Carpenter Shop at Sutter's Fort, we got custom cut 36 X 4 inch black oak slabs to make the work benches.  Very cool stuff.

Back in my window and door making days 20 to 30 years ago, we regularly got 8/4 molding grade pine in 20 to 26 inch widths.   But I never saw any 36" stuff that wasn't custom cut.

[EVILDR235]

What is a tree ?

EvilDr235

[OilyRascal]

Not white cedar - but I know of a sawmill where the guy has a stash of 48"x5/4x16' yellow pine - .40/bd ft when I last bought it.

I swear im not smoking crack ....more likely heat exhausted not thinking straight.  24" pine is what I've seen and used.  If only I knew of a 48 stash

[scottg]

The shame of it is, when I moved to this town they could have been cutting 8' wide planks all day long.
  All day!!
     And they never did.
http://www.oregonlink.com/onelogload/

I never even saw 2 footers cut!
They ripped the finest doug fir on the planet down into construction 2X4's wholesaled at rock bottom price per thousand feet. 
3 big mills, 24/7 production, unparallelled quality trees....
......construction lumber
sigh
  yours Scott

[Batz]

[HeelSpur]

Good moogy doogy, now thats a saw!