I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you’d think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    8 months ago

    9-3/8 is spec, the hell you talking about?

    You are just off on the amount that the wood can shrink from being rough sawn at 2” to final delivery. If one board came from a mill on a humid area, it would shrink less before milling meaning it will shrink more onsite, if the board comes from an arid region, it’s already shrunk lots before being milled. So won’t continue to shrink more.

    This is the reason why you can’t predict the milled measurements and they use nominal sizes…. Not to mention the group is SPF, so it can be multiple species that shrink differently.

    The difference between just basic book knowledge and actually using the material for a living mate.

    Also, the hell is a sawyer? Wood comes from mills.

    • Captain AggravatedEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      Okay, are we talking about “boards sold as 2x10s might vary in width from board to board?” Because I took you to mean that a given dried and milled 2x10 might move up to an inch, which it had better fucking not. Because yeah, the likes of Georgia Pacific are going to be a bit sloppy with the final dimensions of 2x10s, because it rarely matters that much for what that board is going to be used for.

      I’m a woodworker, I buy rough sawn lumber dried over a period of months, I shop dry it for a couple weeks then mill it myself. I can predict with a fair degree of accuracy how much it will move.

      A sawyer is an occupational term for a person who operates a sawmill. My sawyer’s name is Bill.

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        A sawyer is an occupational term for a person who operates a sawmill.

        Okay I just wanted to make sure you were talking out of your ass. Your mill and miller uses hand tools? Because that’s what a sawyer is dude…

        Give it up. Yes a 2x10 can move 1/2 while drying, if you used them, you would know and understand this.

        • Captain AggravatedEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          From Wikipedia:

          Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pitsaw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill.

          Operator of a sawmill = sawyer.

          A 2x10 can move a half inch while drying? Sure. It shouldn’t be “while drying” while the construction crew is installing it.