Thread: 4x2

Originally Posted by rrich

Actually year/month/day is the best because it is sortable by a machine.
LOL

thers an ISO standard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

4x2 in Victoria. Though have read strange US terms would be something like - 8/4 x 16/4 though this seems to be in small sizes. Weird lot the yanks -no offence to any reading

While we are at it the Yanks talk of Dado joints there is no such thing

It’s now in the common vernacular like the term live edge. I would say it’s here to stay, like it or not.

Originally Posted by wood spirit

have read strange US terms would be something like - 8/4 x 16/4 though this seems to be in small sizes.

8/4, 16/4 is how the yanks measure thickness.
the /4 bit means "quarters", 8/4 means 8 quarters or 2 inches thick and usually applies to rough sawn boards.

Originally Posted by wood spirit

Weird lot the yanks -no offence to any reading

I'm sure that more than a few come here for the good natured ribbing

Originally Posted by auscab

YAt trade school I was taught to describe timber for cutting lists as

Amount x Length x width x thickness

Ditto. Although the assumption was always that width > thickness. ie. larger dimension first. So 4x2, not 2x4. (Also I was taught Amount / L x W x T ... ie. a slash between amount and dim's but that's just a quibble)

Mind you, I did have an interesting 'discussion' with one of the apprentices a few years back. I was working the thicky and he brought over a board, something like 125x25mm and he asked me to bring it down to 18x110. Or something like that.

I looked at him and told him he'd have to rip down the width on a tablesaw and glue the offcut on top to bring it up to dimension before I could do that. He just gave me a blank look and probably thought I was having one of my moments.

I didn't try to explain; that'd be wasted effort.