LOCATIONS 14 BRANCH OFFICES TO SERVE YOU Hood Distribution has 14 locations serving the northeast, southeast and southwestern United States. Corporate offices are located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mouseover each location on the map below to view service areas for each branch or click for more det...

RESOURCES Plain Sawn Quarter Sawn Rift Sawn HOW LUMBER IS SAWN Plain Sawn Plain sawn lumber is also commonly referred to as flat sawn. This is the most common and widely used method of sawing. Plain sawn lumber is produced by making the first cut on a tangent to the circumference of the log. Each ad...

RESOURCES PRODUCT WEIGHTS Lumber & Panel Weights The two charts below provide pound-per-square foot weights for a variety of rough lumber species and structural panels including plywood, MDF, particle board and melamine. Lumber Weights Rough LumberSpecies Pounds perBoard Foot Alder (15/16") 2.15...

RESOURCES WESTERN LUMBER CONVERSIONS Board Measure Equivalents This table, based on Standard Nominal Sizes from (1x2 to 8x24) has been developed by Western Wood Products Association as an aid to: (a) determine lineal (linear) feet per 1000 board feet and (b) find the equivalents between lineal and b...

BY ALPHABET A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W COMMON LUMBER TERMS A. 4/4 = 1 (inch) - It is a practice among lumbermen to express the thickness of cabinet grade lumber in quarters of an inch. Hence: 4/4=1 and so on up to 16/4=4. Air-drying (AD) Wood that has been dried naturally to have mo...