Pachan Dhanji Patel could take a girth, a length and a count and give you the answer before you had finished writing it down. Calculators failed against him.
He never needed one of these. We built it for the rest of us, and for every carpenter, contractor and dealer on this road who does this arithmetic a dozen times a day on the back of a bill book. Use it, free, whether or not you ever buy a foot of timber from us.
Quarter girth is the girth divided by four. Hoppus cubic feet is that quarter girth squared, times the length in feet, divided by 144. Hoppus sits about 21.5% below true cylindrical volume, and that gap is the allowance for the slabs sawn off to square the log. It is the standard measure for round timber and it is what your supplier is quoting.
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Hoppus is the standard way round logs are measured in the timber trade. You take the quarter girth, which is the girth divided by four, square it, multiply by the length in feet and divide by 144. The figure lands about 21.5 per cent below true cylindrical volume, and that gap is the allowance for the slabs sawn off when the log is squared.
Divide the cubic feet by 50. One ton is 50 cubic feet by trade convention, not by weight, and it is the same figure across the market.
Multiply the thickness by the width in inches, multiply that by the length in feet, then divide by 144. Multiply by the number of pieces and add a wastage allowance on top.
35.3147 cubic feet. The calculator converts both ways for you.