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Thread: What is a Cube of timber
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15th May 2012, 09:13 PM #1Senior Member
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What is a Cube of timber
How do you calculate what a cube of Timber is? Is it 1mx1mx1m? Any Help is greatly appreciated, Thank-you Richard
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15th May 2012, 09:16 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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cubic metre
Yup.
Got it in one.
Greg
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15th May 2012, 09:24 PM #3Senior Member
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Thank-you Greg
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16th May 2012, 10:42 PM #4Senior Member
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Hi
There is also nearly 424 super-feet (1 s/f =12" x 12" x 1") in a cubic metre, just in case your dealing with small high grade material which may be still sold per superfoot, such as fiddleback blackwood or birds-eye huon pine.
Cheers
James.
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17th May 2012, 02:02 PM #5
Naturally we rarely see a "cube." Very few blocks of timber that size around.
However, for example, a "cube" of 100mm x 50mm x 2.4m long would be fractionally over 83 lengths.
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PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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17th May 2012, 03:09 PM #6
An additional obscure question. If a pack of green timber is sold by a cube measurement will it be oversized so that it is nominally the same size after it has dried?
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17th May 2012, 03:13 PM #7
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19th May 2012, 10:18 PM #8Senior Member
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Overcut timber
Hi there
In my opinion most furniture grade timber should be over cut by about 1/8" in thickness and 1/8 - 1/4" in width to allow for shrinkage in both dimensions. This extra over cut timber is not calculated into the final volume being sold, hence if you buy a cube of over cut timber green, it will be fractionally larger than a cube in actual size, but may dry back to its nominal size in time.
This is generally not the case with structural timbers, which we cut to exact dimension unless specified otherwise.
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James