Posted on 08/27/2017 10:58:20 AM PDT by Mount Athos
****A 2 x 4 is 1.5 x 3.5 inches.***
Years ago, when rebuilding my house I noticed the old wood, oak, was an actual rough 2x4. Had to cut shim strips to make up the difference when adding new pine wood.
Also had to drill pilot holes in the old oak as it was TOUGH to nail into.
But then, my house will probably stand up a tornado. Don’t want to test it out though.
Actually, I tore dwn an old school house built in the 20s that had real Doug Fir 2X4s sanded smooth and kilin dried. Not all old timbers are the same.
You'd think that would play havoc on precise measuring.
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Unfortunately she’s married to a moron (neverTrump radio blab show host)
Yes, what we get today in many instances is soft pine wood.
It is a rude awakening when you’re driving a nail into hard wood lumber. Cutting it can be a pain too.
As you intimate though, it is stronger (and heavier) too.
Must have been an older home. I once helped demolish a very old home, had square nails (shaft sides) in it.
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Thank goodness for common sense when dealing with these scum lawyers and their self serving “justice”. F them.
People who work with lumber know the sizes. I don’t think it causes that much problem for them.
Perhaps someone who has worked home construction will chip in and explain how it affected them.
I don’t think it does all that much, but I could be wrong.
They know what stresses each section will have to carry, and purchase lumber accordingly. 2x4, 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 2x12, 4x4, and other cuts accordingly.
The current dimensions are a function of the standardization of commercially produced lumber that began occurring in the late 40’s and 50’s with the post war building boom.
My complaint is "12 cup" coffeepots that don't make 12 eight ounce cups of coffee. I want the largest coffeepot but can't even compare them when the manufacturers count anything from 5 to 6 and 1/2 ounces as a "cup"
Funniest movie Tom Hanks ever made.
Then it must be some sort of retrograde time action ... There were other pieces: 4x6s and 6x12s, along with tongue-in-grove flooring all similarly sanded and kiln dried.
Perhaps your history is a bit off, or those pieces were being produced earlier than recorded.
Years ago there was a class action suit against United Airlines for some kind of ticket pricing problem and I had been using United a bit for business travel. I did not know about the suit but received an envelope with ten $10 discount ticket coupons in the mail.
The stupid coupons could only be used one at a time and only for full-fare tickets, which almost nobody ever paid. I found out the lawyers received millions of dollars while the actual class received the worthless coupons.
The lawyers and their clients should be arrested. This is nothing more than extortion.
And yet if you play the lottery in California and win the advertised jackpot you only get that amount if you take payments over 26 years I believe. Talk about false advertising.
so the 2x4’s you had were 1.5” by 3.5”?
Yeah, recall the frequent flier fiasco at American. The attorneys get millions, those who had their miles deleted received coupons good for future flights as long as the reservation was made like during a total solar eclipse at high tide at Point Barrow. I actually met the requirements to use a $10 coupon one time and the American reservation clerk said to me that was the first one she had ever found to be useful in the six months they had been in the market.
LOL! I hear ya! My Mr. Coffee holds 8 cups of water to make 12 “cups” of coffee!
Those Subway shops are mighty cold.
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