The wife asked for a new table for our little outdoor cooking area, so I got started today. First job, did out the rough lumber. I have some lovely quarterband rift sawn white oak. Unfortunately, it was on the bottom of a pile, so I had to unstack about 500 bd-ft to get down to the boards I wanted. Thankfully, as soon as I started feeling sorry for myself, I realized how blessed I am to have stored up well over 4 Mbf of lovely lumber, some kiln druied anf some air dried/drying. Couldn't feel sorry for myself after that.
Wait a minute Mike.......4 MILLION bd ft? Holy...... Is that some kind of figure of speech that really means 4 measly bd ft? That can't be right, as I see quite a bit more than that in the pic. Where oh where do you store those boards? Now that you've let the cat outta the bag, we need . Lots of 'em.
Board-foot can be abbreviated FBM (for "foot, board measure"), BDFT, or BF. Thousand board-feet can be abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, million board-feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF.
I interpreted it as "million too Thanks for the info. Now I wonder why it wouldn't be "k" for thousands, instead of using Roman numerals?
I did a at mbf also. i don't know a thing about wood...except C/S/S and burning it... Thanks for the info
Best I can tell it has to do with English system vs Metric system. English system (Cups, feet, gallons) was in place when the colonies were settled and before the metric system. "K" started getting used with the metric system. So the English chose Roman numerals and the French chose Greek references and ended up with k for 1000. MM above is obviously a thousand thousand which makes it a million. English units - Wikipedia Metric system - Wikipedia
I roughly milled and glued up the top and legs last night. Cleaned up the glue and finished milling the legs this morning. Then milled up the skirt boards. Just 8 mortise and tenon joints and preliminary finishing before glue up.
I store the kiln-dried in my workshop, the fully air-dried in my pole barn and the drying boards outside on sticks and under steel roofing.
It's going outside but under a porch roof. I could probably get away with anything, but I suppose I'll use marine spar varnish.
Final details, scraped/planed and a preliminary finish of thinned spar varnish. I used all rift sawn lumber. That"s why it's all straight grain. Glue up an pins in the joints tomorrow.
