Discount Cedar Lumber Prices

Description of Insect Damage on Wood

Custom Cedar Options

If you look carefully at the below pictures you will notice insect damage in some of the wood.  Damage ranges from minimal to more extensive.  Wood from these logs normally would be made into paper but since the wood is largerly usable, we choose to put it to its highest use.  It works great wherever cedar is used and when a perfect appearance is not necessary.  We well this material at 75-85% of our normal low prices. When you use it you make a positive enviromental contribution by allowing another healthly tree to remain standing in the forest.

Note: The wood pictured on the right has damage that exceeds what is normally sold as discounted wood.

Discounted Cedar Pricing:

1x3 - $0.24 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 3 inches)

1x4 - $0.32 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 4 inches)

1x6 - $0.48 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 6 inches)

1x8 - $0.76 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 8 inches)

1x10 - $1.00 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 10 inches)

1x12 - $1.60 per lineal foot (actual size 7/8ths inch x 12 inches)

2x2 - $0.32 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 1 ½ inches)

2x4 - $0.64 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 3 ½ inches)

2x6 - $0.96 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 5 ½ inches)

2x8 - $1.52 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 7 ½ inches)

2x10- $2.00 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 9 ½ inches)

2x12- $3.20 per lineal foot (actual size 1 ½ x 11 ½ inches)

4x4 - $1.28 per lineal foot (actual size 3 ½ x 3 ½ inches)

6x6 - $2.88 per lineal foot (actual size 5 ½ x 5 ½ inches)

Creation woods does not sell lumber that would be significantly degraded or that has extensive damage.  Discounted wood is usable wood with primarily cosmetic defects due to insects, rot or bark edges (wain).

 

Description of Insect Damage on Wood:

The western cedar borer is a bright emerald green beetle with a golden sheen, 11-17 mm in length. Adults feed on foliage and deposit eggs under bark scales on the branches of living trees. The larvae bore from the branches to the bole, mining in the heartwood for 2-3 or more years.  

Jeff Morrel professor of Wood Sciences at Oregon State answers questions about the cedar borer.

In what applications can this wood be used?   

Answer:  It should be usable pretty much anywhere cedar is used.

 

Is there a potential for the worms to still be in the wood and then exit later after installation?    

Answer: Maybe- but we have not heard that this is a problem.

 

After the tree is down, how long can the worm continue to live?   

Answer: I have never seem  boards with live beetles-   in fact- a few years ago we used some freshly cut cedar boards to see how well we penetrated beetle galleires and never saw a live one

 

Is there any way to ensure there are no worms remaining in the wood?   

Answer: Kiln drying would be the only way- but it is probably not necessary since the beetle does not reinfest harvested wood .

 

Does prior damage by the worms degrade the longevity of the wood through secondary means?   

Answer: No- the defect seems pretty confined- at best, the holes could create pathways into the wood for moisture- but the heartwood is already durable and I do not think it would affect durability ot any measurable extent

 

 

Custom Cedar options.

We can make custom sized cedar lumber per your specifications up to 20 feet long. Prices can be estimated by comparison with the above prices. Add 10% for full dimension lumber. Add 10% for lumber over 16 feet long. Timbers and beams can be manufactured up to 20 inches wide.  Unique slabs and board are individually priced, typically $5-$50.

Choose any board from our cedar “picky-picky pile - $1.00

 

All cedar lumber is semi-rough sawn with a thin kerf band saw, is square edged with untrimmed ends and is not dried unless otherwise annotated.