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LukeJobbins
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help with lumber smuggling to rosarito beach?
Anyone coming south by Rosarito Beach with a truck that can sneak a piece of plywood and a few 2x6's and 2x4's in the back of their truck? I have an
suv and can't fit them inside. I can meet in SD or at one of the Home Depots next to the border and pay for everything myself.
I just checked Rosarito's Home Depot and they are double the price than in the U.S. and not as good of quality. I need one- 3/4"plywood and 4-2x6s and
3-2x4's. I can probably fit the studs in my car because if need be they can be cut down in size but full length 8 footers would be best. At this HD,
pretty beat up plywood was $40 a piece and they didn't have 3/4" so I would need two of theirs plus 4 2x6's at $8.70 a piece and 3 2x4's at $5.40 a
piece. Crazy. If no one is coming in the next few weeks I may be able to just borrow my brothers truck. Thanks
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chuckie
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Ugly American...
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Hook
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I feel for the guy. It's not so much the pricing as the quality of the wood. Pathetic for a company as large as HD. I have often felt that big
companies like Walmart, HD and even Costco dump some of their unwanted product down here. Corporate tianguis.
Does that make me ugly, too, to feel like this?
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Hook
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You point is well taken. It is rather crass to ask someone else to do this, especially to take the risk of being sent back at the border.
I guess I was just commiserating with the guy over the lack of quality.
Getting a good piece of plywood often involves making several trips to the HD or Lowe's (those are down here, too) and getting one from a new
shipment. It's time-consuming............like everything else in Mexico.
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DENNIS
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If the price of a few pieces of wood is actually an issue, perhaps the entire project needs to be re-thought. "Mexico on 5 dollars a day" is
history.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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chuckie
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Buy the lumber wherever you want, put it in or on top of your rig and pay the Fricking duty if they want to charge you...I object and am offended by
these cheap SOB's trying to cheat the Mexicans out of a few bucks....
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woody with a view
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Helped an old guy lay out his joists for a new room one day in BdeLA. Next day the plywood was delivered. It was over an inch short of nominal length
and width. THAT was awesome! I woulda never believed it if i wasn't reading the tape.
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LukeJobbins
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Wow you guys took this all the wrong way. Its one sheet of plywood for a workout thing so strength and quality is most important. I can pay the import
fee if I need to but I was just asking if anyone wants to be NICE and just throw it in their truck since they are coming down anyways.
Please don't ANYONE try to say I am taking away from the Mexicans or you are better for buying things in your country since most US products are made
overseas and most are happy to pay those lower prices(WALMART, etc).
I served my time for America and now I am enjoying life down south and most of my money is being spent here. Rent, groceries, gas, food, etc. is all
bought local whether I'm in the U.S. or any other country.
Before you try to call me out for cheating a small fee, think if you have ever received any cash tips and not filed it with the IRS, or do you call
out every hitchhiker for being jerks and not having their own cars? Do you cross the border with an empty truck and buy everything for your vacation
in Baja or do you supply in America cheating the locals out of your vacation money? Come on guys it was a simple question of me trying to find a
person willing to help me out. Ive brought stuff down for people and stuff north for people and if you have too, you know it's not really a big deal
to help someone out for 10 min.
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BornFisher
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It`s not smuggling unless it`s over $75 worth.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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del mar
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Can-Cun lumber up the free road in rosarito, tons of used and new lumber, cool restored cars and a chevy nova with a huge table saw run off the
driveshaft!
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norte
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If you can get the lumber at the Mexican Home Depot....Why can't you get the lumber at the USA HD instead of asking someone to sneak it?
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norte
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Quote: Originally posted by paranewbi  | I don't think he's asking someone to sneak it...it's more of a transporting problem for him. I use to tie anything down on top of my VW bug for a
beer, but I was a little more adventurous then.
I'd have to add up the logistics and the border hassle to see if it really offset the expense of local material. |
His words not mine. "Anyone coming south by Rosarito Beach with a truck that can sneak a piece of plywood..."
And he did not seem to have a problem transporting it from Rosarito HD.. Maybe their more to the story that I do not get. I was just going by his
statement.
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LukeJobbins
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| Quote: Originally posted by norte | | Quote: Originally posted by paranewbi | I don't think he's asking someone to sneak it...it's more of a transporting problem for him. I use to tie anything down on top of my VW bug for a
beer, but I was a little more adventurous then.
I'd have to add up the logistics and the border hassle to see if it really offset the expense of local material. |
His words not mine. "Anyone coming south by Rosarito Beach with a truck that can sneak a piece of plywood..."
And he did not seem to have a problem transporting it from Rosarito HD.. Maybe their more to the story that I do not get. I was just going by his
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Here is the story if you didn't read the first post. Plywood is crap and really expensive down here. No matter if it's Home Depot or the local
building supply guys.
I have an suv that can not fit a full 4' wide piece of plywood in my car. I honestly don't know how much the import fee is for a sheet of plywood but
I know last year when I brought a small amount of junk 2x3s cut up for firewood they tried to charge me 40 dollars for "import taxes". It was pretty
obvious I wasn't selling the 2x3s and they were trash and it took a lot of negotiating to get them to let me keep the firewood so I know a fresh piece
of plywood would not fly. If someone has other info to the contrary please let me know because it would be so much easier to just strap it to my roof.
I know plenty of home owners down here that have put a sheet or 2 under camping stuff to sneak it in. If there was quality stuff down here for
anywhere near the cost of the US I would just get it here. If I could do it myself with my car; I would. If you don't like it just add it to the list
of problems in the world and stop judging me and hating everything. If you can't or won't help then move on please. If no one can help within a month
I can borrow my brothers truck.
I can and do cross often and have no problem meeting someone and paying for a sheet myself. 30 dollars for a sheet of underlayment 3/4" plywood at
Home Depot in the US.
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I don't have a problem finding good quality wood in Loreto but you do have to look and know what you're buying. We have a yard here that even has
good quality Birtch plywood imported from the US. Most of the plywood is Pine you have to ask for Fir, but they do have it. Get away from HD and
find a good local yard.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view | | Helped an old guy lay out his joists for a new room one day in BdeLA. Next day the plywood was delivered. It was over an inch short of nominal length
and width. THAT was awesome! I woulda never believed it if i wasn't reading the tape. |
I had a similar thing happen with OSB bought here. I framed the roof joists at 16" OC and started to sheet. Plywood was about three inches long and
I figured I made a mistake on the joist spacing so I cut the OSB to fit 16 OC.
Next sheet....same thing so I put a tape on it, as well as the rest of the stack. All three inches long.
Independent yards will be seconds, so don't leave home without your cinta.
[Edited on 4-9-2017 by DENNIS]
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woody with a view
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😎 part of life, eh?
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| Quote: Originally posted by DENNIS | | Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view | | Helped an old guy lay out his joists for a new room one day in BdeLA. Next day the plywood was delivered. It was over an inch short of nominal length
and width. THAT was awesome! I woulda never believed it if i wasn't reading the tape. |
I had a similar thing happen with OSB bought here. I framed the roof joists at 16" OC and started to sheet. Plywood was about three inches long and
I figured I made a mistake on the joist spacing so I cut the OSB to fit 16 OC.
Next sheet....same thing so I put a tape on it, as well as the rest of the stack. All three inches long.
Independent yards will be seconds, so don't leave home without your cinta.
[Edited on 4-9-2017 by DENNIS] |
Yes, you need to verify sizes.
You are actually buying 'metric' sized plywood and not the expected 4' x 8' US sizes.
Standard metric sizes -
1200mm x 2400mm - 47 1/4" x 94 1/2" (Over an inch short...?)
1200mm x 2500mm - 47 1/4" x 98 1/2" (Almost three inches long ...?)
Mexico is a 'metric' based country.
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DENNIS
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Some independent lumber yards here buy special order "seconds." A standard sheet of plywood .......anywhere....is 4x8.
Mexico is also a Peso based country, but we all know how that goes.
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When you buy a tire in Mexico, is a 265/75-16 known as a 265/75-406?
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| Quote: Originally posted by DENNIS |
Some independent lumber yards here buy special order "seconds." A standard sheet of plywood .......anywhere....is 4x8.
Mexico is also a Peso based country, but we all know how that goes. |
in Australia......plywood is 1200x2400mm, don't know about anywhere else
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