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About This Site

calculateboardfeet.com is a small, fast set of lumber calculators built around one unit: the board foot. No sign-ups, no uploads — every calculation runs in your browser, and your tally is stored only on your own device.

Where the numbers come from

How the calculators are built

The whole site is static: no accounts, no database, no server watching your keystrokes. Each calculator is a small, tested piece of arithmetic that runs locally — the same code path is exercised by an automated test suite against worked examples from the extension literature (for instance, a 16″ × 12′ log must scale exactly 108 board feet on Doyle before we ship). Pages are deliberately lightweight so they load fast on a phone in a lumber yard with one bar of signal, and every tool page prints cleanly — the tally slip and the chart are designed to be paper before they're pixels.

What this site is not

It is not a store, not a broker, and not a substitute for your supplier's tally. Log rules in particular are estimates by design — two honest scalers can read the same log a few board feet apart — so treat every figure here as planning math. Where a page carries affiliate links to tools we discuss, that page says so plainly.

Corrections

Found a number that disagrees with your mill's tally book? We want to know: [email protected]. Estimates on this site are for planning — confirm quantities and prices with your supplier before purchase.