Industry Information
Lumber Lingo
Tue Jul 21 1998
AD -- Air dried
ADAT -- Air dried after treatment
ADF -- After deducting freight
ALS -- American Lumber Standard
APO -- A product of
AST -- At ships tackle
AW&L -- All widths & lengths
AYC -- Alaskan Yellow Cedar
B&S -- Beams & stringers
BD -- Board
BD FT -- Board feet
BDL -- Bundle
BEV -- Beveled
BF -- Board feet
BH -- Boxed heart
BHND -- Boxed heart no defect
BL or B/L -- Bill of Lading
BM -- Board measure
BSND -- Bright sapwood no defect
BTR -- Better
C&F -- Cost & freight
C/L -- Carload
CB -- Center beaded
CIF -- Cost, insurance & freight
CLF -- Hundred lineal feet
CLG -- Ceiling
CLIS -- California Lumber Inspection Service
CLR -- Clear
CM -- Center matched
CSG -- Casing
CV -- Center vee
CWT -- Hundred weight
D&M -- Dressed & matched
D/S or DS -- Drop siding
DET -- Double end trimmed
DF -- Douglas Fir
DF/L or DF-L -- Douglas Fir / Larch
DIM -- Dimension
DKG -- Decking
E -- Edge
E&CB2S -- Edge & center bead 2 sides
E&CV1S -- Edge & center vee 1 side
E&CV2S -- Edge & center vee 2 sides
EB1S -- Edge bead 1 side
EB2S -- Edge bead 2 sides
EE -- Eased edges
EG -- Edge (vertical) grain
EM -- Edge matched
ES -- Englemann spruce
EV1S -- Edge vee 1 side
EV2S -- Edge vee 2 sides
FAS -- Firsts & Seconds
FAS -- Free alongside (vessel)
Fb or f -- Extreme fiber stress in bending
FCPW -- Flat car paper wrapped
FG -- Flat or slash grain
FLG -- Flooring
FOB -- Free on board (named point)
FOHC -- Free of heart center
FOK -- Free of knots
FRT -- Freight
FSRGH -- Full sawn rough
FT -- Foot
FT SM -- Feet surface measure
G/S -- Gradestamped
G1S -- Good 1 side
G2S -- Good 2 sides
GRN -- Green
H or M -- Hit or miss
H&M -- Hit & miss
HB -- Hollow bark
HDO -- High Density Overlay
HF -- Hemlock-true firHEM - Hemlock
IC -- Incense cedar
IN -- Inch or inches
IND -- Industrial
IWP -- Idaho white pine
J&P -- Joists & planks
JTP -- Jointed
KD -- Kiln dried
KDAT -- Kiln dried after treatment
L -- Larch
LAM -- Laminated
LBR -- Lumber
LCL -- Less than carload
LF -- Light Framing
LGR -- Longer
LGTH -- Length
LIN or LF -- Lineal feet
LNG -- Lining
LP -- Lodgepole pine
M -- Thousand
MBF -- Thousand board feet
MBM -- Thousand (ft.) board measure
MC -- Moisture Content
MDO -- Medium Density Overlay
MG -- Mixed grain
MOE -- Modulus of elasticity
MOR -- Modulus of rupture
MSF -- Thousand square feet
MSR -- Machine stress rated
N1E -- Nose 1 edge
NBM -- Net board measure
O&ES -- Oiled & edge sealed
P&T -- Posts & timbers
PAD -- Partly air drief
PET -- Precision end trimmed
PP -- Ponderosa pine
PW -- Paper wrapped
R/L or RL -- Random lengths
R/S -- Resawn
R/W or RW -- Random widths
RC -- Red cedar
RDM -- Random
REG -- Regular
RGH -- Rough
RIS -- Redwood Inspection Service
RW/L -- Random widths & lengths
S&E -- Side & edge
S-DRY -- Surfaced dry
S-GRN -- Surfaced green
S/L or SL -- Shiplap
S1E -- Surfaced 1 edge
S1S -- Surfaced 1 side
S1S&CM -- Surfaced 1 side & center matched
S1S1E -- Surfaced 1 side, 1 edge
S1S2E -- Surfaced 1 side, 2 edges
S2E -- Surfaced 2 edges
S2S -- Surfaced 2 sides
S2S&CM -- Surfaced 2 sides & center matched
S2S1E -- Surfaced 2 sides, 1 edge
S4S -- Surfaced 4 sides
S4S&CM -- Surfaced 4 sides & center matched
S4SEE -- Surfaced 4 sides, eased edges
SB1S -- Single bead 1 side
SDG -- Siding
SEL -- Select
SF -- Square feet
SG -- Slash or flat grain
SM -- Surface measure
SP -- Sugar pine
SQ -- Square
SSRGH -- Standard sawn rough
STK -- Stock
STND -- Stained
STPG -- Stepping
STR -- Structural
SYP -- Southern yellow pine
T&G -- Tongue & groove
T&T -- Truck & trailer
TAD -- Thoroughly air dried
TBR -- Timber
VG -- Vertical grain
WCLIB -- West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau
WDR -- Wider
WF -- White fir
WRC -- Western red cedar
WT -- Weight
WTH -- Width
WW -- White woods
WWPA -- Western Wood Products Association
" -- Inch or inches
' -- Foot or feet
x -- By, as 4x4 = (4 "by" 4)
4/4 5/4 6/4, etc. -- Nominal thickness in fractions of one inch
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