Old news probably, but good news.

[forestryworks]

News

 

[Jacob J.]

Hopefully the Democrats won't shut the export market down like they did when Clinton was in office.

 

[madhatte]

Heh. It's split, and it's good for everybody. Public lands can't sell export logs, private lands can. That's driving prices up in both markets.

 

[OregonSawyer]

Heh. It's split, and it's good for everybody. Public lands can't sell export logs, private lands can. That's driving prices up in both markets.

Including driving up prices for local mills, squeezing them even tighter. It's kind of a catch 22. As much as people complain about exporting jobs overseas, they sure do seem to enjoy when that overseas market is using their product....

 

[madhatte]

'S true. Have you seen the logyard in Longview lately? Sure is a purdy pile of logs going somewhere else.

 

[OregonSawyer]

I haven't been up that way in some time. I drive down the 5 to school and back every day though and see a number of trucks heading up that-a-way. I still talk to "our" lumber/timber salesman fairly regularly and he said that China is really pinching them hard. They are buying up everything - 2-mill, 3-mill, all different diameters. Used to be that they only wanted the tighter grained "cross-arm logs".

"We" cut a good number of cross-arms (the 4x5's that rest atop power poles) and there were times that we would buy up export rejects to saw for them. Anymore, nothing is getting rejected...

 

[paccity]

another mill bites the dust.

 

[OregonSawyer]

They still have their heads above water. Just getting harder and harder. They predominately gear towards 6"+ free of heart timbers.

 

[paccity]

yea, but i miss the days in the late 70's & early 80's of having loads stacked up 10 blocks from the mill. just memories.

 

[RandyMac]

My cousin Kev says they are gearing up to hit the second growth Redwood in Humboldt. He asked me if I wanted in on some East of Eureka, I may shoot him in the foot.