CONVERSION OF INCHES AND FRACTIONS (UP TO 12 INCHES) INTO 1 CONVERSION OF INCHES INTO DECIMALS OF A LINEAL YARD. inch=0277 yard. 5 inches1389 yard. 9 inches = 25 yard. ='1666 •3055 66 66 3333 SCANTLING AND TIMBER, Accurately reduced to Inch Board Measure. EXPLANATION. The length of any piece of scantling, or timber, will be found in the left-hand column, under the side dimensions. The breadth and depth (or side dimensions), in inches, will be found at the head or center of each column of computations. Thus, on page 261, a piece of scantling 2 by 11 inches, side dimension, and 16 feet long, is shown to contain 36 feet and 8 inches, of board measure. On page 263, a piece of scantling 4 by 10 inches, side dimension, and 17 feet long, is shown to contain 56 feet 8 inches of board measure. The answer sought for, in all cases, will be found directly on the right of the length, and under the side dimensions. If a piece of scantling, or stick of timber, should exceed in length any provision which has been made in these tables, its contents would be shown by taking twice what is shown for half its length. Thus, a stick of timber, or piece of scantling, 46 feet long, would contain twice as many feet, board measure, as is shown in the table to be the contents of a stick 23 feet long. So also, one 39 feet long would contain as many feet, board measure, as these tables show opposite to 22 and 17 feet long, or 3 times the contents of one 13 feet long. |