Thread: can any one identify this wood

It is WRC.

A board foot is a piece of wood measures 12 in × 12 in × 1 in.

Looks like Western Red to me.

A Broad foot or Super Foot is 12"x12"x1"

or .0256 of a Cu Meter

E.g. Piece of timber 4' long x 6" wide x 1/2 thick = 1 Super-foot

2' x 6" x 1" = 1 Super foot

I buy timber by the Cu M buy sell it in Broad Feet.


Cheers


Steve

Wrc

Originally Posted by fineboxes

A Broad foot or Super Foot is 12"x12"x1"

Yep. The term "board foot" is an Americanism. Used in USA and Canada. In Australian and New Zealand usage the correct term is "superfoot".

Standard unit of volume measurement for timber prior to decimalisation. Remained in common usage here for many years after the introduction of decimal measurement, until use of the "cubic metre" unit of measurement became more accepted.

75 superfoot, big canoe is it?

It'd be a bloody HEAVY canoe, anyways!


But nah. If you look at this construction log for a project based on Gil Gilpatrick's book, you'll see that much of the timber volume used goes into the 'strongback' construction platform, rather than into the canoe itself.

Hi Tokoroanz,
Please be very careful of the dust off this wood
It is very bad. It put a friend of mine in Hospital for over 3 weeks. Nearly lost him.

thatnks for the advise issatree
the canoe is going to be about 18 foot long
i am probably going to make it out of pauloiwnia
wrc would be nice but i dont think i have enough in the windows i have and it would be a shame to bust them up ( also they are worth more to me as windows i think )
and to buy rough cut wrc it is just so expensive and every one who has any knows its value
if only it grew around here
and i cant find any other options that are light enough to make a canoe from

i lkooked at the link to sam buchanans canoe log
it was fantastic thank you
i noted thta he used 65 board feet for his canoe
i imagine that a lot of this ended up on the flkoor as shavings after you make the strips
went back to Gils book ( which is a brilliant book) and he said 70 -75
what do you think of timber such as maple? to make a canoe?
it is easy to get and light b ut soft and likes to move?