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Seems to be an amazing resource, but so sad that it's tailored for an American audience with an English-only catalogue and those unreadable units (wtf is a lbs/ft3, seriously ?).

Edit: Ah ! They have meters and kg/m3 on each detail page, that's better !



The standard unit for purchasing lumber in the United States is a board-foot which is 1"x12"x12" or 1/12th of a cubic foot. Cubic feet is used because "board-foot" is too industry specific but it's still easy enough to convert when you need to calculate the weight of your woodworking/construction.




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