in long lengths if a person has a pipe threader , 20 or 25 foot lengths and to get it home tie it under the pickup. A good way to save money!!!! They use to stock both but probably just one length  now.

   But I don't even know if their are any real carpenters left in this world anymore! 

Edited November 19, 20178 yr by Ron Dudelston
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Interesting you mention that. Before I started a black iron project I went to what used to be the only local hardware that would cut and thread pipe to order. To my surprise, that hardware has become one of those ubiquitous flea market type stores. Have to admit, I've not ecer seen it at a lumber yard, but I've probably never looked for it there, either.

I have a pipe threader.  Have used it on occasion where an exact fit is needed.  Another one of those deals where it is a lot of work to save a few bucks unless you have a lot to do.

Fred just take a walk out back to their storage sheds. Lots  of stuff out there that don't exactly display real good indoors or else take up too much room inside..

  Not too many years ago I assumed my lumber yard did not stock Baltic Birch until I noticed it stacked in a shed with lots of other things I had never seen displayed inside. It was actually cheaper than what I had been ordering not even counting the freight that was tacked on.

  Dan, now most guys would never think of threading a short piece of pipe anymore but the time it take to go to town and back is worth more than the piece  of pipe. All the carpenters I knew and worked with worked on farmers places and once we got to the house for the work, we never had to go to town every few minutes. Now people are specialist. So it take a whole bus full of people to do what a carpenter use to do by himself.