Rollie -- Exactly. As I mentioned, the nominal sizes of dimensioned lumber is due to lumber grading standards as well as building codes, and reflect the minimum allowable size for these boards. Lumber suppliers also milling boards the smallest they can get away with not only means maximum board feet per log, but also maximum board feet per load. If you compare an 8' wide x 48' long load of 2x4's, .....well, let's do that:
1.5" x 3.5" x 8' = 504 cu"
1.75" x 3.75" x 8' = 630 cu"
2" x 4" x 8' = 768 cu"
For an 8' wide x 12' high x 48' long load of lumber, you can get just under 15,800 individual boards at 1.5" x 3'5"
For 1.75" x 3.75", you can get 12, 639 individual boards.
And for 2" x 4", you can get 10, 368 individual boards.
Therefore, by milling lumber to minimum acceptable size, you gain a huge amount of product per load. Retailers can also store more of this product, which saves on their floor space. And as the minimum size is universally acceptable, then it only makes good "business" sense to mill to minimum acceptable standards. Then when the mills can also get more individual boards per log, especially when using band mills, well.....you can begin to see how the mills started seeing much more profits.
So nowdays, the minimum acceptable is what you will find. Most people don't know the how's or why's of lumber and never bother to find out. But I'm with ya'll - this lawsuit stinks worse than rotting eggs in turkey manure that's baking in the hot sun!!
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