This article reveals that calculating volume in board feet is questionable for hardwood trees, suggesting better methods may be needed.
In this article the author endeavors to show that since the board foot is a unit of product and not of volume, the practice of expressing in board feet the contents of portions of trees from which such material, as lumber, can not be realized is hardly defensible.
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Robert K. Winters (1933) studied this question.
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