This pertains to hardwoods, I know nothing about pine or other soft wood markets.
Barn lumber isn't the same as it was years ago, back then many of the small operations sawed cross ties or cribbing and sold the lumber to who ever would buy it so one could get good lumber for barn siding at a decent price.
Today furniture and flooring lumber are the main products sawed with cross ties and crating lumber as secondary, low cost barn siding is now from the heart wood that has to many knots or rot in it for the high grade markets, doesn't make very good barn siding ether.
Good quality lumber comes at a high price today, to high for the average person wanting to side a barn.
Some are using lower cost popular lumber for barn siding but it doesn't last as long as the oak lumber that was used for hundreds of years.
The lumber on our old feed barn is getting bad, due to the cost of good lumber we'll be residing it with metal.
I turned logs on a old 01 Frick circle mill powered by a JT Cummins years ago, part of the reason I have back trouble today, my friend that had the old Frick mill now has 2 modern all electric high production sawmills.
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