MEASURING TIMBER
(To the Editor). Sir,—Here is some information which I came across the other day, and which it occurred to me, would be of interest to many of your readers: For measuring timber, the main thing to bear in mind is that a "super" foot is a basic measurement 12 inches long, 12 inches wide, and one inch thick. Using this standard, let us assume a bulk of timber 12 feet in length, 10 inches wide, and four inches thick. To find the superficial feet we merely multiply 10 by four and divide by 12, which shpws we have three and a third times as much timber in 10 x 4 as in. 12 x 1. Finally, multiply the timber length by three and a third, and the answer, in our example, would be 12 x 3 1-3—40 super feet.—Yours, etc. SAWDUST.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3386, 23 November 1935, Page 8
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