The old timer at the lumber yard in Boise told me to stop hand-picking boards and I still think he was wrong

Leo Robinson · 2026-10-19T07:45:05.417336+00:00

I was sorting through a stack of 2x4s at a yard off State Street last month, pulling out the straight ones like always, and he walked over and said "grab the top six and get back to work, the pile don't care." I get that time is money, but I've pulled bowed studs out of a wall six months later and had to tear it apart, so I'll keep picking one at a time. How do you all handle board selection when a yard guy is standing there rushing you?

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