A board foot is a volume measurement 144 cubic inches equal to a board that is 1 inch thick 12 inches long and 12 inches wide.
Weight of hardwood per cubic meter.
Mbf means thousand board feet.
1 cord 128 ft3 x 4 x 4 x 8 85 ft3 solid wood 15ft3 air and 28ft3 of bark 1 tonne 1000 kilograms 1 1023 tons.
Average hardwood log weights tons tons per mbf log length feet doyle 8 10 12 14 16.
Of imperial units x conversion factor metric units conversion factor imperial units.
1 ton 200 lbs 0 9072 tonnes.
One cubic foot is equivalent to a 12 foot by 12 foot by 12 foot solid cube of wood.
This is a high quality plywood produced in russia and other areas around the baltic sea.
A 4 x 8 sheet of 1 2 inch apa standard plywood would weigh 48 lbs.
A board foot is a wood plank that measures one inch by 12 inches by one inch.
The density of pure water is also 62 4 lbs cu ft pounds per cubic foot and if we know that a sample of apple has a sg of 0 73 then we can calculate that its density is 0 73 x 62 4 45 552 lbs cu ft.
Density of water 62 4 lb ft3 1000 kg m3 1 lb ft3 16 018 kg m3 0 016 g cm3 0 00926 oz in3 2 57 oz gal imperial 2 139 oz gal u s 0 0005787 lb in3 27 lb yd3 0 161 lb gal imperial 0 134 lb gal u s 0 0121 ton yd3 water content in wood.
In this table the density of different species of wood is expressed as weight in pounds per cubic foot and kilograms per cubic meter.
Yet in both cases you have a cubic meter of hardwood.
A standard cord is a four foot by four foot by eight foot stack of wood.
For instance red oak is about 45 pounds per cubic foot or 730 kilograms per cubic meter which in and of itself isn t too terribly useful seeing as how you will most likely never encounter or be required to lift a piece of oak that is a perfect one foot or one meter cube.
Conversely there can be more taper in butt.
The density or hardness of wood varies by species and the value is necessary to approximate the weight of lumber by volume.
Baltic birch plywood.
Quaking aspen weighs 700 lbs.
1 cunit 100 ft3.
Typical density values for fresh green wood versus air dried seasoned wood.
For plywood learn how to estimate the weight of plywood panels.
Shagbark hickory weighs 1 377 lbs.
Weigh more per board foot.
A log rule is a tabular system used in determining the net volumetric yield of a log.
As specific gravity is just a comparison it can be applied across any units.
Note kg cu m divided by 16 01846 lbs cu ft.
1 cord 2 4070 m3.
Density of wood species.
It is made up entirely of birch wood so unlike some other hardwood plywood it does not use softwood for the inner plies and the inner plies are void free.
