Board foot
The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It equals the volume of a board that is one-foot (305 mm) in length, one-foot (305 mm) in width, and one-inch (25.4 mm) in thickness.
| board foot | |
|---|---|
| Unit of | Volume |
| Symbol | FBM |
| Conversions | |
| 1 FBM in ... | ... is equal to ... |
| SI base units | ≈0.002359737 m3 |
| US Customary | 1⁄12 ft3 |
Board foot can be abbreviated as FBM (for "foot, board measure"), BDFT, or BF. A thousand board feet can be abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, a million board feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF.
Until the 1970s, in Australia and New Zealand, the terms super foot and superficial foot were used with the same meaning.
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