Service Forester's Handbook

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====== Cubic Foot-Board Foot-Cord Equivalents ======
====Approximate Equivalents of Forest Products====
^Cubic Feet ^Board Feet ^Cords ^Cubic Meters (steres) |
|1          |6          |---   |0.0283                |
|200        |1,000      |2     |7.25                  |
|90         |500        |1     |2.5                   |
|35         |138        |0.25  |1                     |
Weight per MBF Scribner Decimal C log rule by species

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^Species                         ^Average Weight per MBF(1) ^Range(1)      |
^:::                             ^lbs.                      ^lbs.          |
|Longleaf                        |15,500                    |14,215-18,130 |
|Longleaf-Loblolly               |15,000                    |:::           |
|Loblolly                        |14,900                    |:::           |
|Slash                           |15,100                    |12,964-16,336 |
|Slash-Longleaf                  |15,100                    |13,136-16,364 |
|Slash, pond, loblolly, longleaf |15,400                    |14,017-15,955 |
|Shortleaf                       |14,700                    |:::           |
|Pond                            |13,770                    |:::           |
|Slash-Loblolly                  |14,900                    |14,097-16,090 |

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<sup>1</sup> Average and range values were derived from many weight sales,
and they have been used for actual weight scaling in Southestern Georgia.
Source: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1965. Selling sawtimber by the pound. 
Unpublished study. 

====Relation of Southern pine Sawlog Weights to scaled volume====
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