Q. Why aren’t 2 by 4 boards really 2 inches by 4 inches?
A. Would you like to read 59 pages on this subject? In 1964, the U.S. Forest service published “History of Yard Lumber Size Standards.”
If you want to read it, we can download a PDF copy, and email it. Or we can pull it up on a library computer.
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