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Meanwhile in many countries in Europe there is bark beetle epidemic that is destroying our spruce forrests and lumber is currently cheapest and most abundant ev

• choeger 5y ago
  But sawmills are running at full capacity, prices are increasing massively.
  • corty 5y ago
    There are various bottlenecks (harvesting capacity, environmental regulations forbidding harvesting in over half the year, sawmill capacity, transport capacity) that make the market very weird: If you have the capacity to harvest, you can get "pluck it yourself"-lumber really really cheap. In regions where sawmills are at capacity, you can get timber very very cheap (currently basically everywhere). But harvesting machine rent and labour as well as sawing are extremely expensive, as are sawed products.
• hnbad 5y ago
  We also had the heatwave a few years ago that killed a lot of forests (at least in Germany) and probably contributed to the damage bark beetles are now causing. And I'm sure the massive wildfires in Australia and North America in 2019/2020 destroyed a lot of timber, too. But the problem doesn't seem to be the timber supply, weirdly enough.