The Foot of a Board

[bennylaird]

Stick to our principles and don't give an inch!!!!!!!!:mad:


(sorry 24.5 mm):eek:

[Lignum]

The well known timber yard where i get mine from out Dandy way still call it 4 be 1, and 3 be 1, and 4 b 4, when i order, its only when the invoice is totaled its in metric. And today i was ordering ply and masonite from another supplier and he kept refering to it as 8 by 4 sheets. It wont go away because its just to easy to say

[Paul H]

Give someone 25.4mm and he'll take 1.609344 km

Paul H

[MurrayD99]

Hell with this. Lets revert to Super Feet (and pints and cubic inches and bhp) when we do the political union thing. Then you know where you stand. No doubt this'all was high on the agenda between John & Helen.

[Daddles]

I don't understand what all the fuss is about. We all know that whatever sized lump of wood you buy it'll always be just a little bit too small for the job

Richard

[Iain]

I don't understand what all the fuss is about. We all know that whatever sized lump of wood you buy it'll always be just a little bit too small for the job

Richard

Maybe so, but to revert and keep this going, by how many board feet or part thereof, I mean Richard, wheres your credibility when down at the pub tonight you are complaining 'the timber for that table I was making was too small', you must stand to impress and quote ''the timber for that table I was making was .o3 of a board foot too small' and wait for the looks of envy and admiration.

[Felder]

you must stand to impress and quote ''the timber for that table I was making was .o3 of a board foot too small' and wait for the looks of envy and admiration.

Or complete confusion........

[Iain]

Or complete confusion........

BUt Richards only presents at quality drinking establishments from what I have heard, 'I say old chap, one glass of Grange Hermitage 97, theres a good chappy'
(bear in mind he does live in SA and the beer is unpalatable)

[Daddles]

(bear in mind he does live in SA and the beer is unpalatable)

It's okay Iain, we've fixed the supply problem and can get the local brews again - we don't have to drink Victorian beer anymore

Richard

[Greg Ward]

To take metric to its extreme, the French after the revolution built clocks with 10 hour time periods, not 12.........

So are all you late nighters who stay up until midnight, going to push for a 10 hour day now?

Talk about a lot of agro late night drinkers.....
I never thought inhaling wood dust was a serious problem, but now after reading some of these threads, I'm not so sure.
This is a forum... right?
People have the right to make statements...... right?
And others can respond....... right?

But simple manners dictate that if you have nothing concrete to say, take another drink and go and kick the dog.
Regards
Greg

[Daddles]

I had a maths teacher who used to say that "the only thing the French did right was to invent the metric system ... and they got that wrong"

They did too. The original metre was defined as the length of the meridian passing through Paris divided by some number. Problem was, in those days, they had the size of the earth wrong (by quite a bit) and so the metre was shorter than it should have been

Ahhh the French, who else would include a basket of eggs and a ploughed field in a motor car specification (the 2CV )

Richard

[Gaza]

at my dads timber yard, the guys in the office talk in 4x2, 3x11/2 etc but if they give an order to the ordermen to pull out its all in metric, if its not they look at it like from mars.
All invoices we recive are in metric even from O/S when importing.
I am young but perfer to use feet / inches when talking, but always use metric in writing.

[scottyk]

If you buy speciality timbers in Tassie, all prices are worked off the Super Foot, in my experiance.
So it's still used and relevant info for us.
Scottyk.

PS 400sf = 1m3

[rrich]

Thanks for the laughs... I've been away for a while and when I saw in another forum someone defining a board foot as 2.36 Liters, (which makes as much sense as a board foot) I knew I had to come back to this fun group..

As I said, all of you were smart enough to get away from the absurd measurements based on length of some ancient anglo-saxton foot. Unfortunately for us, the ladies are the ones that refused to cook using the metric system. That bit if insurrection basically ended the conversion to metric in this country. (Actually faster than it started.)

My woodworking has been interupted by NASCAR.