"There Is No Shortage?" Train Loads Of Lumber Stacked As Far As The Eye Can See

How many times has this video been posted on this site in the past week???

Keep buying into it retards. You are being played. Now they are whipping up the shortage stories and being pushed by resident propogandists.


Something fucky going on... Foil hat on.

There's plenty of commercial construction projects going on, and the tower cranes are there to prove it.

Yes, my thread was pined a week ago (same vid). The outcome of it was pretty eye opening. There doesn't seem to be much change in Canuck pricing, what was interesting was the huge discrepancy in State to State pricing. Or maybe it was region to region pricing, in the US. Nada change ($29.00 for a decent sheet of ply) in Upstate NY, upwards of $99.00 for the same product elsewhere. There doesn't seem to be a shortage, just people in many places being short changed. Maybe Interstate commerce has been 'covided'?

(((Speculators)))

Full stop.

Start with BlackRock. They have NO right to invest in single family homes.

There's always anomalies.

They have every right. As well as you and I. Blackstone was buying up during the foreclosure crisis back in 2013. And they had a right too.. There is some tie to blackrock, but that is not it..

doesn't warren buffet own/run the trains?

They are trying to force inflation to kill the dollar

Climate change tarrifs for cutting down trees

There are so many clearcuts now where I live, good luck 'bugging out' to the woods!!!

Black rock has to show increasing profit year over year, what's one way to do that in the property management industry other than raising rental prices?

Guess you'll have to move to BC. BC is larger the WA, OR, CA and half of Idaho put together...plenty of woods to bug out to.

I live in far north Idaho. I am surrounded by forest for a hundred miles in all directions. There is a lumber mill 15 minutes south of me and another one 15 minutes north. I know people that work at these mills.

The mills are operating at full capacity. Logging trucks are on the highways at regular levels.

Meanwhile, the local building supply store on the edge of town has barely any lumber in it, and prices have tripled and quadrupled since last fall.

The mill workers can't figure this out, either.

I lived in West Africa for two years.

During this time, there were Chinese businessmen who ran side gigs shipping
huge sections of tree trunks back to China.

Straight up, they would park a shipping container and have the wood sections loaded, bugs, bark and all.

The containers would be driven to port facilities in Monrovia, Liberia and Freetown, Sierra Leone and
put on a ship home. There, they would be sold for large sums of money.

I wonder how much is being EXPORTED?

Are the Chins going through a massive building surge?

Yes, it would be easy to sneak across the border up by Bonner's Ferry where it is solid forest for miles and miles.

Being a forester, they might even give me a job!

But, the covid squad would catch me eventually, and give me the shot that makes men gaye and women bleed to death... so a hard pass on that one, Lance.

I wish I could go back up to the many hot springs I used to visit there in Western Canada... good times!!!

Agenda 2030 , they don't want people building houses anymore , they want all people to be herded into the cities remember.

Those pics don't show all that much lumber.

I have worked at a busy retail lumberyard. In those pics I see enough lumber to fully stock 3 busy lumber yards.

A lumber yard will contain (partial list):

2x4-8 studs; 20 bundles
2x4-8 premium studs; 10 bundles
2x4-9 studs; 10 bundles
2x4-10 studs; 10 bundles
2x6-8 studs; 8 bundles
2x6-9 studs; 8 bundles
2x6-10 studs; 8 bundles

2x4-8,10,12,14,16 spruce; 5 to 8 bundles each
2x6-8,10,12,14,16,18,20 spruce; 5 to 8 bundles each
2x6-8,10,12,14,16,18,20 yp ; 5 to 8 bundles each
2x8-8,10,12,14,16,18,20 yp; 5 to 8 bundles each
2x10-8,10,12,14,16,18,20 yp; 5 to 8 bundles each
2x12-8,10,12,+4,16,18,20 yp; 5 to 8 bundles each

Everything above in treated also

Several bundles each of 20 types of plywood

40 bundles plus of a few types of OSB

A dozen bundles of 20'+ fir

What I've listed represents at best 75% of the lumber found in a single busy retail lumber yard.

If your notion of a lumberyard is Lowes or Home Depot you have no idea. A builder's lumberyard sells more lumber before they open Monday morning than home depot sells all week. 6 to 10 semi trucks a day in lumber.

Listed our pile of sticks today for 795,000. We have a cool 250 in the place. Looking to clear a clean half million dollars.

I will wait for the right Californian to bounce along, I will snag him like a steelhead in the snake river.

How to create a housing bubble:

1. Railroad company is just too busy to get these customers worked into their schedule.

2. Contractors can't seem to find laborers for some reason (aka: free govt covid unemployment money)

3. Housing prices double with lumber supply vs demand.

4. Banks can't stay in business if they don't continually loan money to someone.

5. Housing prices inflate to 25% to 50% or more of what the houses are actually worth.

6. Banks that refuse to loan money to customers for inflated housing prices either go out of business as they fight off their competition that is, or start giving loans for housing with outrageous markups.

7. BOOM... Artificial Housing Bubble

8. Govt blames COVID.

9. Then when the economy dips just a tiny bit, (govt blames covid) people can't pay their loans and... boom... wave of repo's sweep the nation and banks get rich... until nobody can buy the houses back from them and they start crashing like dominos.

Don't you guys know price gouging is only illegal if civilians do it?

If you get steel quoted, the quote is good for 5 days around here.

Wood quoted jobs good for 7 days.

Steel door order are 8 weeks out.

BUILD YOUR HOUSE OUT OF ROCKS.

AIN GON BE NO SHORTAGE.

distribution is the problem.

Biden continues to pay more and more people to stay home than to work.....

its a simple formula, starve the system = socialism when the government "saves" everyone later.

bums at home get that knock ~ now you work for the wood distribution ministry, go to work or die.

They are pricing out all first time home buyers such as myself.

I wanted to spend $350k on a home last year. Same home is now $450k. $100k in one year is more than my entire income after tax.

Manufactured scarcity is a communist tactic.

Weyerhaeuser, West Fraser, Georgia-Pacific, Sierra Pacific, Interfor and Hampton own more land than anyone else in America. These companies are running prices up to make as much as they can and make the business look as good as it can for the imminent sale out to China. China will own America.