Imagine if the states switched from pounds to kilos overnight
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
I would have thought they would have inherited the British way of doing things
We didn't fight for our independence just to copy the old country's ways. :laugh:
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)Is that why you still speak a dialect of English, measure with inches, feet, and yards, and weigh with ounces and pounds? Strange way to declare your independence, if you ask me! :laugh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Is that why you still speak a dialect of English, measure with inches, feet, and yards, and weigh with ounces and pounds? Strange way to declare your independence, if you ask me! :laugh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Yeah, but we got rid of those superfluous U's in words like color, honor, etc. Viva la revolution! (Or however it's spelled, those darned French don't know how to spell, either. lol)
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
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There would be mass confusion.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Y eah, it would be for a time. After spending over a decade in a country using meters and kilos, I can handle either system. CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Y eah, it would be for a time. After spending over a decade in a country using meters and kilos, I can handle either system. CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The basic lumber for building here in the US is called a "2 by 4" -- a piece of wood (usually pine) that many years ago was 2 inches by 4 inches by some length (such as 8 feet long). Today that piece of wood in a lumber yard is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches by some length. Not sure why the size shrunk other than saving a few dollars for the lumber mill. As a typically uninformed American, what is the basic equivalent piece of lumber elsewhere in the world? These are the deep questions retirement allows me to ponder. Best wishes from Minnesota - Craig
In much of the rest of the world, people no longer build with wood - it's either too expensive or subject to conservation laws. As you pointed out, even in the US they have reduced the amount of lumber going into a house by going from a 2"x4" standard to 1.5"x3.5". They may use more yards of lumber to compensate for the reduced structural strength, but I'm certain that less lumber is needed overall.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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The basic lumber for building here in the US is called a "2 by 4" -- a piece of wood (usually pine) that many years ago was 2 inches by 4 inches by some length (such as 8 feet long). Today that piece of wood in a lumber yard is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches by some length. Not sure why the size shrunk other than saving a few dollars for the lumber mill. As a typically uninformed American, what is the basic equivalent piece of lumber elsewhere in the world? These are the deep questions retirement allows me to ponder. Best wishes from Minnesota - Craig
Also in Sweden wood used to be sawn into lumber measured in inches with 2 by 4 being the most common. The old Swedish inch was 24.5 mm instead of the 25.4 mm used in the US though. Going metric these measures became 50 by 100 mm instead. But these measures were the green wood and raw sawn. After drying it shrinks a bit. The wood sold nowadays is usually planed or surfaced some way shrinking the size a bit more, so the standard 2 by 4 is actually measuring 45X95 mm. Some googling gives that the same story applies also for the US, 2 by 4 (1½X3½) are 38X89mm after drying, green measures are 40X90mm Seems like US saw mills are actually working in metric until the wood goes on sale.
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