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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    6 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
      1·
      6 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 Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        6 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.

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          6 months ago

          Follow those wiki links, they all use hand tools, to use it to refer to one who operates machined mills instead of manual in a sawmill would be incorrect since there is already a term.

          A miller operates a machined sawmill.