Talk to any contractor or carpenter — or most people who are reasonably familiar with home construction and repair — and they’ll tell you that a “4×4” piece of lumber is not actually four inches by ...

Almost sounds like something you could look up in a copy of Machinery's Handbook. I seem to remember dimensional lumber numbers being listed, along with typical loads they could handle. Either that or ...

Home center paying million-dollar fine because bureaucrats didn't understand industry convention. Of course, as just about anyone who's ever picked up a hammer knows, dimensional lumber -- the stuff ...