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  2. Lumber - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, at a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Committee on Grade Simplification and Standardization agreed to what is now the current U.S. standard: in part, the dressed size of a 1-inch (nominal) board was fixed at 3 ⁄ 4 inch; while the dressed size of 2 inch (nominal) lumber was reduced from 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 inch to the current 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inch.

  3. Canadian Lumber Standard - Wikipedia

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    CLS timber is kiln-dried and is white wood. [9] Tree sources include Fir, Pine and Spruce. [10] [6] CLS is planed and fished with eased or rounded edges. [9] [11] CLS timber is commonly graded at two strengths, C16 or C24. [9] C24 is the stronger and is typically more expensive. [10]

  4. Standard (timber unit) - Wikipedia

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    The hundred in the term standard hundred was usually a long hundred, meaning 120 pieces, but the word hundred was often dropped, leaving simply standard to mean "the local standard number of pieces, each in the local standard dimensions". The timber would be typically called battens (7 inches wide), deals (above 7, usually 9 inches wide) and ...

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  6. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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    There are various types of shakes, the main differentiating feature between shakes and other types of shingles is that shakes are split while most shingles are sawn on all sides. The sizes also vary from country to country; in North America shakes are usually made in 24-inch (610 mm) lengths - the most common, 18-inch (460 mm) barn shake, or ...

  7. Parallel-strand lumber - Wikipedia

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    The product is manufactured as a 12-by-12-inch (300 mm × 300 mm) or 12-by-18-inch (300 mm × 460 mm) billet in a rectangular cross-section, which is then typically sawn and trimmed to smaller cross-sectional sizes.