Mick B
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One of the 1st things I noticed after joining this forum is that most members talk in metric measurements. Considering the majority of you (from what I have seen so far) are from England and surrounds it surprised me to see this. I thought you used imperial measurements like inches and feet etc ?
I started work as a carpenter here in Australia back in 1970 and for the first 2 years we all used feet and inches and then in 1972 we started converting to metric and find it much easier especially in the building game. I can easily work either way and we often walk into a timber yard and ask for "3 metres of 4" x 2" which is kind of half and half metric / imperial. Even the younger blokes working there know what a "4 X 2" is or how long "4 feet" is. What I can't handle is "centimetres". We were told that is for dress makers !
Mick.
(6 foot or 1830 mm tall.)
I started work as a carpenter here in Australia back in 1970 and for the first 2 years we all used feet and inches and then in 1972 we started converting to metric and find it much easier especially in the building game. I can easily work either way and we often walk into a timber yard and ask for "3 metres of 4" x 2" which is kind of half and half metric / imperial. Even the younger blokes working there know what a "4 X 2" is or how long "4 feet" is. What I can't handle is "centimetres". We were told that is for dress makers !
Mick.
(6 foot or 1830 mm tall.)