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Slightly off topic but when I was sawmilling and dealing in timber it was always the price paid per cubic meter that counted as that's what I sold it by (cubic meters) but often stuff would be offered off a waggon by some wheeler dealer in imperial, eg: 100 lengths of 12ft6" 4"x2", no online converters back then.

So it was length in feet multiplied by dimensional square area multiplied by the magic multiplier, the multiplier used by we sawmillers was 0.0001966, you won't find much about that on the web but it's an easy one to remember.

So 12.5x4x2x0.0001966xthe number of pieces gave the volume in cubic meters.

Lawrence.