Branmar Logging

I’ve been buying lumber from them off and on for about a year now. They take orders and custom-​cut your lumber from logs. These are reasonably friendly people, but a bit more reserved than I’d like as a customer. They offer yellow-​poplar, pine, red oak, white oak, and I think a few other species like red cedar. This is a great place to buy white oak fence boards — if you buy a «bundle» it will work out to about $ 3 for a 1×6×8 (as of early 2014, anyway). Try getting a price like that at Lowe’s. You can’t even buy white oak there. Just red oak at a ridiculous $ 40 a board, and poplar for about half that, equally ridiculous. Branmar’s fence boards are good enough to sand and use for other things, of course. It’s all rough-​cut, green lumber. You have to dry it yourself, carefully stacked, with each layer separated by scrap lumber, and the whole thing heavily weighted down. I do so in a big shed that gets a lot of sun and is an absolute furnace all summer long. It takes 6 months to a year to really dry out a board and shrink it down to its stable point. One quibble: When they tell you they’ll call you back in a day or two with a price or some other information, they never do. You have to keep after them and keep asking. Overall I’m very glad they’re there and satisfied with their service and products.