How many pints to a board foot?

[Joerg Bullmann]

Hello there,

When reading the thread on birch wood bench tops in the Neanderthal Haven earlier I came across the unit bf. I got curious.

Auntie google pointed me towards wikipedia where I found it to be 'board foot,' equivalent to 144 cubic inches being about 2360 cubic centimetres which amounts to almost exactly 5 pints. If you are in the US that is. A little less than 4 1/6 pints if you are in Britain.

As the board foot mainly seems a unit of measure in the new world I herewith suggest the adoption of the US pint as unit of measure when talking about smaller amounts of wood.

How's that?

:D

Metrically yours,
Joerg

[Brian Kent]

Here's 472 cubic centimetres to you, Joerg!

[Michael Weber]

LOL. I've ordered pints in the UK plenty of times but never saw any wood. If I ordered a board foot of ale, there might be a wood connection from falling on the floor.

[Jeremy Brant]

Here I was thinking this might be an anti-safety thread. I sometimes measure the length of time it takes me to do a car repair at home by how many pints are consumed, but with so many sharp moving objects in the shop I might consume a single pint in an entire evening's worth of shop time. Anyone that has broken it down by how many pints are consumed per board foot might have a problem.

[Kent A Bathurst]

That's for rough pints only, of course.

Rather than the rough 1" x 12" x 12", the surfaced 1 x 12 is 3/4" x 11-1/4" x 12". Volume of a surfaced 1 x 12 is only US 3.5 pints.

Of course, to make it more confusing, if you were talking pints of surfaced 2x4, not pints of surfaced 1x12, then 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 18"= US 3.3 pints.

Can't believe anything a lumber guy tells you [:D - I were one for quite a few years- so you can believe me].

[Larry Edgerton]

I like your system, but being as I use a large quanity of wood I converted to gallons. So I called up and ordered 1250 gallons of poplar form my supplier.

He hung up.....

[Brian Kent]

You know what is really sick? Google will translate pints into board feet for you.

Just type in "4 pints in board feet" and the answer it gives is "4 US pints = 0.802083333 board feet"

The same calculator will also inform you that "70 mph = 188,160 furlongs per fortnight"

Who knows what other wonders lurk in the minds of google programmers.

edit: I just found out that "4 Imperial pints = 0.963262318 board feet"

[Leigh Betsch]

Well, at 9 gallons to the Firkin, 1250 gallons of poplar is going to make a Firkin lot of bookcases.

[Russ Filtz]

LOL. I've ordered pints in the UK plenty of times but never saw any wood..

Must.....refrain........from.......bad......joke.. ..., dang.


"That's what she said!" :D

[Joseph D'Orazio]

Well, at 9 gallons to the Firkin, 1250 gallons of poplar is going to make a Firkin lot of bookcases.
Ha, you got away with that one.
Must.....refrain........from.......bad......joke.. ..., dang.


"That's what she said!" :D
I thought the same thingl You guys are to funny. Round these parts its tall boys or bottles. If were drinking Lone Star I am buying. How many tall boys in a BF¿

[Larry Edgerton]

Ha, you got away with that one.
I thought the same thingl You guys are to funny. Round these parts its tall boys or bottles. If were drinking Lone Star I am buying. How many tall boys in a BF¿

6.649 Lone Stars to the Bd. Ft. So it would only take a couple of Bd. Ft. of Lone Star to get started on a good jag.....

But the Aramadila might get ya after a few more bd. ft.............