Board foot
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A board foot or board-foot is a unit common in the United States and Canada of the volume of a board that is one foot long, one foot wide, and one inch thick.
Board foot is abbreviated as FBM (for “foot, board measure”), BDFT or BF. A thousand board feet are abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT or MBF. One million board feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF.
In Australia and New Zealand , the terms super foot or superficial foot used to be used synonymously.
One board foot equals:
- 1 ft × 1 ft × 1 in
- 12 in × 12 in × 1 in
- ≈ 30.48 cm × 30.48 cm × 2.54 cm
- 144 in 3
- 1/12 ft 3
- ≈ 0.00236 m 3
- ≈ 2360 cm 3
- ≈ 2.36 liters
- 1/1980 Petrograd Standard
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russ Rowlett: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement . Retrieved January 30, 2007.
- ^ Les Burger: Cutting Timber on Springbrook in 1935 . Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
- ^ Alan Holgate: The Bendigo Monier Arch Bridges. . Archived from the original on July 2, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2007.