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About these units
Board Foot (board foot)
A board foot is a unit of volume used in lumber, defined as a board measuring 1 foot long × 1 foot wide × 1 inch thick, equal to 144 cubic inches, or about 2.36 liters. The unit reflects a material-centric approach to volume: rather than measuring empty space, the board foot measures solid wood content, crucial for pricing logs, boards, and woodworking materials. Forestry operations, sawmills, and lumber yards rely heavily on board-feet calculations to estimate yields from logs, determine pricing, and evaluate timber resources. The unit persists due to deep integration with North American construction and carpentry practices.
Hectoliter (hL)
A hectoliter, equal to 100 liters, is widely used in brewery and wine production, grain measurement, and hydrology. Many countries report beer production in hectoliters, and grain yields (such as wheat or barley) are sometimes expressed this way in agricultural economics. In hydrology, rainfall accumulation or reservoir inflows may be quantified in hectoliters when dealing with moderate-scale measurements. The hL bridges industrial-scale volume tracking with metric simplicity, keeping numbers relatively compact and readable.