Shannon's Lumber Industry Update

Let's talk about the grading systems for hardwood lumber. Primarily we are talking about the NHLA system but I will me... Read more

The terrible fire at Notre Dame in Paris has a lot of people in the lumber industry asking questions about how to possib... Read more

Part 1 of my Lumber Buying Guide: where to find a place to buy lumber in the first place. Maybe you are blessed with lo... Read more

This week I catch up on some emails from listeners. We talk about purpose warped wood, the Green Wall, community based ... Read more

In this part of my Buying Lumber series I talk about building a plan for your lumber yard trip. This involves reverse e... Read more

When you buy a board off the rack at a lumber yard, exactly what has happened to that board to get there? This episode ... Read more

Part 2 of our Buying Lumber series focuses on buying online. When to do it and what questions to consider when you do b... Read more

On this show I share some feedback on the Notre Dame episode and then talk about Ebony regulation and availability and w... Read more

In this episode I answer questions from the mail bag covering everything from how trees are raised like crops, when to s... Read more

Every lumber species has technical specifications associated with it that detail how hard it is and all the associated d... Read more

A wee bit political and maybe controversial this week as I discuss reduction in business for sawmills after sweeping lum... Read more

While I was in Michigan's Upper Peninsula I stopped by Bell Forest Products to have a little lumber industry insiders co... Read more

In this episode I touch on the differences between air dried and kiln dried lumber. Plus many more questions and update... Read more

In this episode I talk about genetically modified Chestnut, Red Oak sizes, Whitewood, the difference between hardwood an... Read more

Let's talk a bit about plywood and how tariffs and new environmental regulations are impacting it.

Let's learn about CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. How does this apply to lumber and... Read more

This episode is a buying guide to Marine Grade plywood. What to consider as it related to how you will be using the ply... Read more

How do you lose 300 containers of Bubinga once they have been seized at the port? Moreover how did you allow that many ... Read more

This time I look at FSC and other certification and verification schemas in the lumber world. Are they what we think th... Read more

This episode I scratch the surface of what the Lacey Act is and how it applied to the lumber trade.