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2. Lumber - Wikipedia

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   After drying and planing, it would be smaller by a nonstandard amount. Today, a "2×4" board starts out as something smaller than 2 inches by 4 inches and not specified by standards, and after drying and planing is minimally 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (38 mm × 89 mm). [13]

3. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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   The US survey foot is defined so that 1 metre is exactly 39.37 inches, making the international foot of 0.3048 metres exactly two parts per million shorter. This is a difference of just over 3.2 mm, or a little more than one-eighth of an inch per mile.

4. Board foot - Wikipedia

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   The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. [1] It equals the volume of a board that is one foot (30.5 cm) in length, one foot in width, and one inch (2.54 cm) in thickness, or exactly 2.359 737 216 liters .

5. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   A U.K. deal equaled 7 ft × 6 ft × 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in, while a U.S. deal equaled 12 ft × 11 in × 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in. [7] Demiard – an old French unit of volume. When France metricated, it survived in Louisiana and Quebec. The demiard eventually became associated with the American and British half-pint rather than French units. [7] Firlot; Hekat ...

6. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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   There are anecdotal objections to the use of metric units in carpentry and the building trades, on the basis that it is easier to remember an integer number of inches plus a fraction, rather than a measurement in millimeters, [9] or that foot-inch measurements are more suitable when distances are frequently divided into halves, thirds, and ...

7. Faggot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   A long faggot was also called a kidd faggot, [5] kid, kide, or kidde being Middle English for firewood in bundles. [6] A fascine (or bavin [3]) is a type of long faggot which is approximately 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 m) long and 8 to 9 inches (20 to 23 cm) in diameter and used to maintain earthworks such as trenches. [7] [8] [9]

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9. Standard (timber unit) - Wikipedia

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   The Quebec standard hundred was 100 boards of 12 feet long, 2 1 ⁄ 2 inches thick and 11 inches wide, making 275 cubic feet. [8] The American standard hundred was 120 deals of 12 feet long, 2 inches thick and 12 inches wide, making 240 cubic feet. [9] The deals for decking sold in the ports of Danzig and Memel were planks of 40 feet long, 3 ...