A thousand
board feet
for
Every Friday, noon Pacific. First three take it home.
After that, ten lots A to J at $100 a step, all the way to a thousand.
LIMIT: 1 unit per person per week.
$50.
¶ What is a thousand board feet?
A thousand
board feet.
Made simple.
Lumber's sold by the board foot—a plank 12″ × 12″ × 1″ thick. A thousand of those is called one MBF. Here's what that actually looks, weighs, and stacks like.
— 01
The shape.
A cube, 4½ feet a side.
About 84 cubic feet. Picture a stack 4½ feet tall, 4½ feet wide, 4½ feet deep. That's a thousand board feet of rough lumber.
— 02
The weight.
Roughly a ton.
A thousand board feet of rough Doug Fir or Hem-Fir runs 1,900 to 2,200 pounds. Cedar comes in lighter, oak and maple heavier. Close enough to call it a ton.
— 03
The volume.
About one cord.
A cord of firewood is 4×4×8 feet stacked — 128 cubic feet. That's almost exactly the volume a thousand board feet of rough lumber takes up on the truck.
Bring a truck and tie-downs. Mill pickup only — no delivery on drop packages.
1,000BF
1 MBF
∼84ft³
Volume
∼2,000lb
Weight
3 spots @ $50
Benderboard shims in variable thicknesses, around ½″. Useful for shimming, packing, and trim work.
Lots A-j, $100-$1000
Beveled siding pulled from production. Mixed grades, ready to install with trimming required.
Standard-grade Western Red Cedar landscape stock. Rough, durable, naturally rot-resistant.
Mixed PNW hardwood pull — could be alder, maple, oak, chinquapin, or a cross-section.
One-inch kiln-dried rough hardwood, mill-run grade. Character marks fair game.
Vertical-grain beaded ceiling, 6-inch face. Premium Pacific Northwest stock.
1,000 BF of mill-run 2×6s, banded and ready. Standing offer at $1/BF.
Whats in it?
— 01
The species
Any of the eight we regularly cut — plus any other Pacific Northwest native that passed through the mill that week.
· Doug Fir / Hem-Fir
· Western Red · Alaska Yellow Cedar
· Red Alder / Oregon White Oak
· Bigleaf Maple / Golden Chinquapin
· Or anything else PNW-native
— 02
Rough or finished
Some weeks it's rough stock — anything from 1×2 shorts up to 12×12 timbers or larger. Other weeks it's surfaced — S4S or even run to a millwork profile.
· Rough: 1×2 to 12×12+
· Surfaced: S4S
· Milled: profile stock
· Every package labeled
Every package is at least 1,000 board feet. The exact mix is whatever our saws produced that week — some weeks it's all one species, some weeks a cross-section.
— 03
The honest deal
This is mill runoff, not premium grade. Character marks, mixed lengths, useful defects are all fair game. But every stick is dry, sorted, and worth cutting into.
· Kiln-dried
· Banded & tagged
· 1,000 BF minimum
· No returns — it's a lottery