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
      11·
      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
          32·
          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.

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              6 months ago

              Yes the link that refers to SAWMILLS as a whole, where there can be millers who use the tools you linked, and sawyers who would use the tools used in the other links.

              Who’s being dishonest? You’re claiming you work in a field you’ve shown zero actual education in.