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12" by 12' - gets you 70 bf.
12" by 12' - gets you 70 bf. But imagine you got a huge fallen tree of 3' diameter, where you have one nice 8' long section. 480 board feet!
 
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Latest revision as of 19:10, 20 February 2021

Say you got a log of a certain diameter - how many board feet of lumber will you get from it?

https://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_volume

12" by 12' - gets you 70 bf. But imagine you got a huge fallen tree of 3' diameter, where you have one nice 8' long section. 480 board feet!