board foot rule

Sure Joe, here's one.

They're "lumber rules". See:

Thanks guys.

Joe

To learn how to properly utilize this instrument, follow the directions precisely to get an accurate accounting of the actual bf of a piece of lumber, then as the customer looks away add approximately

I use something like that method when I golf. When on the green, I place my ball marker directly behind my ball. When replacing the ball, I put it 33% closer to the hole than where the ball marker is.

Seems slightly more ethical when golfing.

In all seriousness, one of the lumberyards I go to has a guy who applies the inverse of your rule (is that a drive-by gloat? I forget the rules). I get the best deals there everytime. AAMOF, if I go and he's not working, I'll just peruse the piles, then go back home and try again the next day.

jc

I don't have any idea what you are talking about. We used to measure timber in cubic feet and now we use cubic meters. What is a Board Foot?

Tim w

Standard measurement for rough lumber for non construction hardwoods. IOW, when you go down to buy some cherry or maple in

Jc

Yeah, one place that I frequent is pretty open about adding in some specific percentage to account for the skip planing and straight edging, etc. I always tell them that is a scam in my opinin and they should just add it into the bf price. But no, they just add in some non-existant bf. They alway claim FAS grade too but they won't let me charge back the knots, cracks and white wood that make 20%+ drop very common.

I feel it is like advertis> I use something like that method when I golf. =A0When on the green, I plac= e my

lumber graders call it a green stick. you could also check

One of the magazines, maybe Popular "Woodworking" or "Woodworking" recently had an article on how to make one. Essentially, it was a hooked ruler with columns for the length of the board. The user reads the width directly to the length for the board feet.

They're not a precision device, so it looked easy. I think he marked

If you can't find the article, you could easily make one with basic math and the photos from the other links. My local dealer uses rulers that appear to be shop made.

Alright. A twelfth of a cubic foot. excellent. And you see what a stupid way of measuring timber a cubic meter is. Order it over the phone and you may get ten times or a tenth of what you wanted.

Luckily a square meter is quite close to ten square feet so an old bloke like me can think in cubic feet then easily approximate to cubic meters by multiplying by ten, er I mean a hundred, no ten thousand if you started with board feet but only one thousand from cubic feet which is three decimal places to the left, no right I think, always remmember a four figure number that's three decimal places except we want four. Anyway you can use a calculator.

Tim w

How about two and a half liters? Works as well for dry measure as for liquid.

you ever sit in one place to long and have your leg and foot fall to sleep? now thatsa one board foot. ross

You're making my brain hurt.

Joe

Or is it a bored foot?

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Ross Hebeisen) wrote in news:9034-47D7E175-802 @baytvnwsxa002.msntv.msn.com:

No, I think a board foot is a wooden replacement foot for amputees.

Puckdropper

Blasphemer!

Obviously no McGyver fan. You can do *anything* with enough caulk, cardboard and duct tape

jc

But only if you also have chewing gum and a Swiss Army Knife.