{"id":12048,"date":"2000-01-01T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=12048"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:18:28","slug":"can-you-ship-long-lumber-8-feet-or-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-you-ship-long-lumber-8-feet-or-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Ship Long Lumber (8 feet or longer)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Yes. Long length lumber must be shipped by a truck freight carrier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two Things to Know About Truck Freight Shipping<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First:<\/strong> the shipping rates aren&#8217;t very economical unless you&#8217;re shipping <strong>150 lbs or more<\/strong>. That&#8217;s about 60 board feet or so (depending on the wood). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second:<\/strong> truck freight delivery comes with a \ndifferent level of service than you might be used to with is a UPS, \nFedEx, or USPS package delivery. Truck freight means someone at the \ndelivery location must be available to unload the truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We do what it takes to make this easier on you, though. We&#8217;ll wrap \nyour lumber in smaller bundles you can manage by hand, then strap &amp; \nwrap those to a pallet. That way you can clip the straps then unload one\n bundle at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/images\/faqs\/lumber-pallet.jpg\" alt=\"lumber shipped on a pallet\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hardwood\n lumber shipped on a pallet to your home can be wrapped like this: wood \nwrapped in bundles approximately 60 to 70 lbs each, all strapped to a \npallet and wrapped for protection. The individual bundles make it easier\n to unload by hand if you don&#8217;t have a forklift to off-load the truck. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Long length lumber must be shipped by a truck freight carrier. Two Things to Know About Truck Freight Shipping First: the shipping rates aren&#8217;t very economical unless you&#8217;re shipping 150 lbs or more. That&#8217;s about 60 board feet or so (depending on the wood). Second: truck freight delivery comes with a different level of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-you-ship-long-lumber-8-feet-or-longer\/\">&#8230;<br \/><small><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lumber-help-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12050,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions\/12050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}