Indeed the finished dimension of lumber HAS changed. Renovating the wood
frame home I owned in Chicago, built around the turn of the century,
after the Great Chicago Fire, I found REAL 2" x 4" and 2" x 6" lumber.
I also removed at least 100 ft of gas pipe used for lighting. When first
wired for electricity, wiring was run through those pipes and light
fixtures replaced the gas lights. Obviously, they were first
disconnected from the gas line, which was still used for heat. :)
Another thing that's changed is the sweet corn that we can buy in the
market -- it's now much sweeter with little real corn taste. As long as
I've been eating it, corn was always hybridized for taste, but it always
tasted like corn. What we get now is hybridized and genetically
engineered stuff that resists the chemicals used to kill weeds. It
looks like corn, but tastes like a sugar bowl. Small farmers used to
harvest their own seeds to plant next year's crop, and to grow corn that
tasted the way they and their customers wanted. But when that chemical
resistant stuff was invented something like 10 years ago, Monsanto, the
big seed company that invented it, sued those farmers, claiming that
some of their patented stuff had cross-fertilized those corn plants, and
within a few years, that phony corn is all we can buy. I used to buy a
half dozen ears, steam them, and eat them for lunch. I haven't been able
to do that for years.
73, Jim K9YC
On Thu,8/11/2016 9:17 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
Bad analogy. The 2 X 4 inch measurement of a piece of construction lumber
is before planning, or rough cut lumber. The finished dimension is more
like 3½ X 1½ which hasn't changed.
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