I currently work with a heavy construction company. I recently ordered a draft of scaffold plank. The person I ordered it from swears there is no such thing as a draft of lumber. I used to work on a framing crew and we refered to a complete bundle as a draft of 2×4’s, a draft of 1/2″ ply, etc. Is draft a real unit of measurment for lumber?
Bet is for a week of lunches, Please help.
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Are you in the US?
yes, central jersey
Call it a Bunk or a full lift, there ya go.
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Well I found it.Here is the definition, but I can't read Thai.http://www.thaishipper.com/factfigure/fact_figure_3_1_d.aspBut I found a couple of references.http://history.rays-place.com/ny/massena-ny.htm"Business of lumbering was one of much prominence for many years. It is said that in 1810 one man rafted to Quebec $60,000 worth of timber. This enormous draft of lumber soon denuded the forest of its best timber in that part of the county, when the settlers turned their attention to grain raising."http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/414519r1_0979/chap5_a.pdfI am wondering if it started as the amount of lumber that was lashed togethr to form a raft.
I always heard " yer in for a raft of Shid" ...so did they..? Nevermind.
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Never heard it called a draft - did a look up and saw that draft can be defined as a measured portion, but usually when referring to a dose of medicine.
I've heard it called a "bunk"
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Always heard it called a 'bunk'. Never a draft. But I'll start calling it a draft if you want..... but then you'd owe me a week of lunches.
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I've always heard it called a bunk, or maybe occasionally a unit. Never heard it called a draft until it was brought up here on BT a few weeks ago.
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I on rare occasions have heard of it refered to as a Skip of lumber. usually by the farmers who moonlite as part time carpenters. I've never heard of it refered to as a Draft.. Mostly it's a bunker or lift..
now all we need to do is find out where the lunches are is being served...
lunch for at least 20 for the week ya say.....
after all, redred did say there was free food and he did it front of this crew...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
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The exact same Q came up here a few weeks ago.
Before that, I'd never heard the term. Usually use bunk or lift
I would suppose that it is the size load a good pair of draft horses could skid along.
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My friend introduced me to that term about 15 years ago. I believe he learned it from his father, an old time carpenter.
If I recall, he said that a draft of plywood was what i would imagine is a lift, the amount the yard gets it delivered. you know, like one large bundle, if you will. Like the economy size, saving them from opening, counting and re-strapping.
That would be a 'unit' out here. But tell 'em I said we call it a draft so you can get your lunches paid for...
I've heard it called it maybe a lift or a bunk, but also a 'hack' :-)
For whatever it's worth, many moons ago I was a fork lift operator in a lumber yard/truss plant. Maybe that's where I picked that up...
Last time I ordered a draft, I was sitting at a bar.
Can't believe this made it past so many keen eyes here on BT.
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they were blinded by week's worth of free lunches...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
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took the Q to a lumber forum...
they said the same as Bill Hartmann...
This1979 DOD document describes a draft as a pitched stickered bundle of lumber, not a unit of measure.
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Edited 7/25/2006 2:44 pm by IMERC
I've been calling it a draft for about 25 years now. I'm in new york. Never heard it called a "bunk" of "lift" or anything like that. Just goes to show that "stuff" has a lot to do with where you are from.
Down here in MD, I always called it a "hack".
I've heard it called a draft, but I'm from NJ and learned from a couple of old-time carpenters ( my dad and grandfather)
I haven't heard that term for a number of years, tho. Mostly I hear "unit"