Lumber vs Timber
Lumber vs Timber
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(This relates to the Cement/Concrete thread)
Is anyone as passionately opposed to the misuse of timber as they are to the misuse of cement? I had a professor in college say that he knew as person was incompetant in wood design if they called any small size of lumber, "timber." He even gave us an example of how he identified an incompetant engineer who inappropriately used the term when he (the professor) acted as a witness for the prosecution in a court hearing. The thing is, I've never heard anyone else have the same complaint. I've even heard VERY intelligent engineers use timber instead.
Is anyone as passionately opposed to the misuse of timber as they are to the misuse of cement? I had a professor in college say that he knew as person was incompetant in wood design if they called any small size of lumber, "timber." He even gave us an example of how he identified an incompetant engineer who inappropriately used the term when he (the professor) acted as a witness for the prosecution in a court hearing. The thing is, I've never heard anyone else have the same complaint. I've even heard VERY intelligent engineers use timber instead.





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n.
1 a Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
b Wood used as a building material; lumber.
2 a A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
b Nautical. A rib in a ship's frame.
3 A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity: That trainee is executive timber.
Sounds odd to apply it to small dimensioned pieces, but this (Gurunet) dictionary doesn't make that distinction.
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Timber; structural material
Wood; what you throw in your stove etc., eg. firewood
Lumber; never used, except in 'LVL'
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I now know better!!
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Definitions Wood: the hard, fibrous substance that forms the major part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Hardwood and softwood Hardwood trees have broad-leaves and 'nuts' as seeds, softwood trees are coniferous (needle leaves) and naked seeds. Lumber: wood that has been cut and surfaced for construction use. Timber: lumber whose smallest dimension is not less than 5 in. Laminated lumber is commonly used when increased wood lard-carrying capacity and rigidity are required.
Plywood is a panel product made from thin sheets of wood called veneers. Expand 0.2% from dry to saturation.
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What you holler when you're buddy is about to get crushed by the tree you're about to drop on his head. That a' way he's got two choices, count 'em. Stay put and get crushed as in concrete, or run like H
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This being the forum it is I feel compelled to point out the incorrect spelling of the first "your"
Respectively yours, John (or should that be your's?)
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Anything that has its smallest dimension 5" or greater is timber.
So if you got a five incher, feel free to call it a timber. You only got 4", gotta call it lumber.
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the word incompetAnt does not exist, the correct spelling is incompetEnt.
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What does that have to do with lumber and timber?
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Here in Australia, Lumber is a medical term that refers to the lower back region. Even my dictionary says so.
Very strange people those Americans.....
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That's lumbar not lumber.
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Just kidding ... I'm in California.
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I just switched lawnmowers, from gas to cordless electric.
Someday I'll do the same with the car.
Also, In Australia, is it concrete or cement?
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After you have mixed it with sand and water and allowed it to set as hard as a rock, it then becomes concrete.
At least that is how it works in oZ...
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Another one. I have heard people say "Austria" when talking about "Australia" and the other way around.
Interesting how technology has allowed us to communicate easier, but the language barriers get all mixed up and communication gets worse.
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Going back to I think a lumbar support is that funny little bumpy bit at the back of a car seat where as the lumber support is the bar across the roof of a pick up.
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We don't have any sidewalks down here in oZ either. So we just have to use the footpath instead.
And we also drive on the left hand side of the road too, much more logical.
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Is it true though that, unlike here in the North where water swirls clockwise down the drain, it swirls counterclockwise up into the sky?
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If ever I see a full sized tornado coming out of the plug hole in my bath, I would be mightily impressed.
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I've been around some loggers and they seem to think that timber incudes trees that haven't been cut down yet. I've always thought that wood was called timber until it was prosseced in a mill and then it was lumber. It's all semantics.
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...perhaps they work all day and sleep all night, as opposed to lumberjacks.