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Knowledge base
Short explainers on logs, sawing, drying and trade, with formulas and sources.
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Grading and trade
Board foot and cubic metre
How to convert between the North American board foot and the metric cubic metre, and why nominal sizes mislead.
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Sawing and recovery
Kerf and recovery: where does the log go?
Recovery is the share of log volume that leaves as sawn lumber. Kerf, slabs, edgings and defects take the rest.
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Log measurement
Measuring log volume: Huber and Smalian
Two common formulas turn a log's diameter and length into solid volume. They differ in which diameter they use.
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Moisture
Moisture content: dry basis and wet basis
The same piece of wood has two different moisture percentages, depending on which mass you divide by.
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Drying
Why wood shrinks when it dries
Shrinkage starts below the fibre saturation point and is different in each direction of the wood.
Not yet expert-reviewed