2x4s purchased

[johnridley]

Because you know, you just have to have 2x4s.

Seriously, upcoming projects involving 2x4s:
Lamp bases for Duckon blinkie room
Peterson-style bluebird houses
Doggie ladder for our aging puppy to get up to the bed.

And I'm sure other stuff will come up.

Comments

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

Yeah, $4 would be cheap up here right now, they're $5.25 at 41. Last time I went to MQT, they were $1.77 (you had to dig thru the pile to get good ones, but that's a good savings)...

I bought 10 for a job that needed 4 last time... then got home and decided that not only did I want to take the door out, but I also want to frame a closet and I need more than 6 (and 2 longer than 8 feet.) And Andy wants to put heavy duty shelves in his office closet to hold equipment and that requires another 4 or 5 (plus plywood). :) I always need more than I have. When the Menards and Home Depot were less than a mile away, we didn't stash them... but when they're 100 miles away, stash is required.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Wow, $5.25? Sounds like time to rent a truck and drive a load of 2x4s up there. Hell, at that rate it might be worth it to ship them.

The 2x4s at Lowes at $2.33 are quite good, I don't bother digging around, the worst ones there might have an inch or two bow, no significant twist or warp. That much bow you can just pull on then drive a nail, no problem.

Home Quarters, when they were in business, were horrid; they had crap on their stacks that looked like corkscrews, and they sometimes refused to get down new bundles from the stack until someone bought all the shit wood from the open bundle. When we had them deliver the wood to build our garage, they gave us wood that had 90 degree (or even more) twist to it, and I didn't own a pneumatic nailer at the time. The door headers were doubled 2x12s, and we had to find boards that twisted in opposite directions, C-clamp them together and drive about 200 nails into it to hold it while we put it in place.