Anybody Know What "mtr3" Means?

[Tom LaRussa]

I was looking at lumber listings on WoodWeb, and came across the following:


Price: US $800 per each mtr3
I'm guessing it means $800 per cubic meter?

Anybody know?

TIA,

Tom

[Brian MacDonald]

cubic meter

[Jamie Buxton]

Yeah, cubic meter. And if I just did the math right, a cubic meter is 42 board feet.

[Steve Evans]

Jamie

1 m3 equals 35.3 ft3. A metre is just slightly less than 3.3 feet.

Steve

[Dan Stuewe]

just to finish the conversion, if I did the math right 1 m^3 = 424 bd ft.

[Todd Burch]

I'm with Dan on his calcs, but I got 421.5/bf. (I used 39.3" to the meter).

(39.3" * 39.3" * 39.3")/144"

Todd

[Ken Fitzgerald]

What is it? It's an indication the good old USA still hasn't gone metric even though I was told it would happen while I was attending high school in the 60's. Arrogant are we? :eek:

[James Carmichael]

OK, I get 423.45 BF. IIRC from 7th grade math, 1m = 39.36".

[Chris Padilla]

Just to add the fun to the mix using the UNITS button on my trusty HP48SX:

1 m = 3.28083989501 ft

1 m = 39.3700787402 in

So (39.37... * 39.37... * 3.28...)/12 = 423.776000659 bd. ft.

:D

[Michael Ballent]

An RPN calculator for a problem like this??? ;) My HP 48G shows 423.776000657 to the cubic meter but I'm cheating and used the metric to bdft conversion :D

[Tom LaRussa]

Just to add the fun to the mix using the UNITS button on my trusty HP48SX:
1 m = 3.28083989501 ft
1 m = 39.3700787402 in
So (39.37... * 39.37... * 3.28...)/12 = 423.776000659 bd. ft.
:D
Okay, so, at $800 per mtr3, that comes to $1.8877897727949353897534017456215 per board foot for Honduran Hahogony with the following specs:

70% = 16/4, 26"+ wide, 8 feet long
10% = 16/4, 8"+ wide, 8 feet long
10% = 8/4, 8"+ wide, 8 feet long
10% = other sizes.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Yes, of course there's a catch.

That price is FOB Quito, Ecuador -- for a 40' container load, which is about 17,000 to 21,500 board feet.

Oh well, we can dream...

[Todd Burch]

Even at $1.89, those are lousy ratios for thickness to width to length. The 8/4 is OK, but 70% of it at 4" thick?? I don't think so. It would make for good workbench tops if it wasn't so soft.

However, in 5 years/10 years, we'll all be aching for Hond. Mahogany at any price.

My luck, I'd order a container, and it would all be fuzzy.

[Tom LaRussa]

Even at $1.89, those are lousy ratios for thickness to width to length. The 8/4 is OK, but 70% of it at 4" thick?? I don't think so. It would make for good workbench tops if it wasn't so soft.

However, in 5 years/10 years, we'll all be aching for Hond. Mahogany at any price.

My luck, I'd order a container, and it would all be fuzzy.
I think the length might be the minimum, but I'm not sure. There is a possibility for some translation difficulties after all.

As for the thickness, I figured we could do an SMC group-buy and ship it in care of Chris Padilla, and he can resaw, book match, plane & joint it to our individual specifications. :D

[Chris Padilla]

I'll do it for 50 cents a bd. ft. :D :D