37,000 BF Lumber at Auction in TX!

[Tom LaRussa]

This is for you wood dealers out there...

A company called Industrial Recovery Services is auctioning off the assets of a furniture factory in Hillsborough, TX. Among the assets is more than 37,000 bf of Oak, Alder, and Maple lumber.

It's all KD.

I don't know the grade(s) but this was a furniture company, so it's probably not #1C, right?

Random L&W.

Lots sizes, in bf, by species and thickness:

Oak, all 5/4
1038
1036
1073

Alder, all 5/4
1415
1411
1409
596
1127
1398
1403
1406
595
367
1402
1123

Maple:

4/4 stock:
1406
1433
1146
845
1066
1433
1067
700
1433
1433
967

5/4 stock:
1402
806
1406
1394
1124
1340

The auctions can be found at http://www.irsauctions.com/index.asp

Go to the third page of auctions and look for Town Square 2000 LLC - Sale #8 and Town Square 2000 LLC - Sale #9.

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with, nor have I ever done business with, Industrial Recovery Services, Inc, (the auction company), or Town Square 2000 LLC, (the company whose assets are being auctioned).

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Holy cow, that is a ton of wood! How about all the woodworkers on this board get together and buy it and then split it up!?!? Wouldn't that be grand!!?!?!

[Tom LaRussa]

Holy cow, that is a ton of wood!

Actually, 37,000 bf at a guesstimate of 3 lbs per bf makes 111,000 lbs or 55 1/2 tons of wood!

How about all the woodworkers on this board get together and buy it and then split it up!?!? Wouldn't that be grand!!?!?!

I posted this to another forum at the same time and a bunch of Texas WWs are banding together to grab as much as they can haul off.

[Bob Worrel Jr.]

Anyone live in Texas and doing some bidding on this? If they were in NC I'd be there

[Tom Sontag]

"I don't know the grade(s) but this was a furniture company, so it's probably not #1C, right?"

One of the oak bundles has "2C" painted on the side (lot 352), I would approach bidding carefully if you have not examined the wood first.

Price and grade MUST go together.