Firewood guess?

[flyingcow]

I agree with everyone around 1-2 cord. Here is my old trailer with roughly 3 cords on it.

Thats a good load. BTW----A cord of wood is 128 cu/ft. Face cord??? Buyer beware.

 

[herringchoker]

Here's my trailer - 80" x 16' with 48" sides, which computes to 3-1/3 real cords. Loaded loose as you see it, it stacks out to just over 2 cords.

 

[bcp]

A US or Canadian cord is 128 cubic feet.

Wonder about the US cord; it does not appear related similarly. It certainly is not a cubic yard.

A cord is about 4 3/4 cubic yards.

or 25 1/6 cubic cubits, for you old guys

Bruce

 

[/pine]

My question is why not cut all the rounds to the right length when the logs are being cut for loading?...just curious...but there is still some work to do before some of that is ready for the splitter...(unless you have a huge FP etc..?

 

[GManBart]

102"x16' with 36" sides.

I'm pretty sure my buddy's trailer is at least 16' x 8'.

 

[crazyal]

I'm pretty sure my buddy's trailer is at least 16' x 8'.

With the wheels on the outside of the deck it's not going to be a full 8' wide, more likely 7' or maybe 7'6". I figured it was 16' by 7.5' by about 1.5' high (1' sides with a little extra because it's piled higher than the sides). That's 180 cubic feet. A cord is 128 cubic feet. Since it's not split nor stacked I figure you're at about a cord or a little more.

 

[2458n]

My guess would be three face cord. For hauling with the dump truck I stand 3/4 inch plywood on end. Four sheets of wood eight ft high. stack some on the part that goes over the cab and tilt the tailgate at about 30 degrees. throw some straps over everything and you have a nice productive load.

 

[PILOON]

I didn't know they even had a cord spec in metric

The seller claimed 'metric' because he was caught at short changing the client. He is the same guy that cuts at 14-16" bur never over 16".
But then he is not a TBN type, just a looser that tries to take advantage of weekenders that don't know any better.
His advertised price is always 20% lower than market.

He got his a couple of years ago as he also added sales tax to his prices but forgot to remit to the gov't.

Another of his tricks is to have what he calls 'fireplace' and 'stove' cords.
Stove being 12" and fireplace being 16". Sells both at same price and mostly delivers shorter at higher price.
But then he finds new suckers every year.

 

[DieselnHooters]

My guess would be three face cord

Same here, sounds like its a trustworthy friend so make him pay for only 2 face cords now and once its cut-splitted-stacked he can make the final instalment on the right measure.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I haul wood all the time on my similar trailer. Its three ricks.

Chris

 

[murphy1244]

I haul wood all the time on my similar trailer. Its three ricks.

Chris

And a Rick is your brother, cousin and a friend?

 

[Diamondpilot]

And a Rick is your brother, cousin and a friend?

Guess its a local term. A rick of firewood around here is 8' long, 4' tall, and 16" to 18" wide. There aprox three ricks in a cord. Again, just a local thing I guess.

Chris

 

[JGL]

From just looking,I'd would say that you would be very close to 1 cord, or 128 cubic ft. of wood. Here we measure by the cord, not a face cord . one cord is 4 x8 x 4 ft high, once it is cut and split and stacked.Good luck

Gerry

 

[murphy1244]

Guess its a local term. A rick of firewood around here is 8' long, 4' tall, and 16" to 18" wide. There aprox three ricks in a cord. Again, just a local thing I guess.

Chris

Chris I know that I'm from the Mid-west too. Just funning ya.

 

[travlitt]

I would guess it to be 1 full cord after it it has been split and stacked.

My trailer with 2 full cords.

 

[GManBart]

Same here, sounds like its a trustworthy friend so make him pay for only 2 face cords now and once its cut-splitted-stacked he can make the final instalment on the right measure.

I'm actually giving it to him free, and he only splits a couple of day's worth at a time (well mostly his teenaged son does!), so it won't get split and stacked to get a better idea of the actual quantity....that's sort of why we were wondering.

I will say that almost none of this was really green wood. Around here we have a huge number of dead Ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer. They die, and stay standing for a while, then typically come down during wind storms. The ones I piled up for this load have been on the ground for a year or more (dead longer), and when you cut them, it's pretty obvious that they're seasoned almost perfectly. For the past year I've been working from the oldest, to newest trees...skidding them out, bucking them, and then having friends come over to load. I've sent off at least a dozen trailer loads like this, and I'm finally making a dent. The next step is to cut down the standing dead trees that can get to my house, fence, or wind up in our pond. I probably should sell it, but now I have a bunch of friends who owe me, and I've got a couple of big projects coming up that will require extra hands, so it should all work out in the end!

 

[flyingcow]

I am used to the term "ricks" vs face cord. Never had heard of a face cord until a couple of yrs ago.

 

[DieselnHooters]

I'm actually giving it to him free, and he only splits a couple of day's worth at a time (well mostly his teenaged son does!), so it won't get split and stacked to get a better idea of the actual quantity....that's sort of why we were wondering.

I will say that almost none of this was really green wood. Around here we have a huge number of dead Ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer. They die, and stay standing for a while, then typically come down during wind storms. The ones I piled up for this load have been on the ground for a year or more (dead longer), and when you cut them, it's pretty obvious that they're seasoned almost perfectly. For the past year I've been working from the oldest, to newest trees...skidding them out, bucking them, and then having friends come over to load. I've sent off at least a dozen trailer loads like this, and I'm finally making a dent. The next step is to cut down the standing dead trees that can get to my house, fence, or wind up in our pond. I probably should sell it, but now I have a bunch of friends who owe me, and I've got a couple of big projects coming up that will require extra hands, so it should all work out in the end!

Sounds like a well reasonned good plan lol

Regarding the ash trees, does the beetle kill all of them or do some make it through, like they are immuned to the bugs. The borer hasnt reached my area yet but most say its unavoidable.

 

[GManBart]

Sounds like a well reasonned good plan lol

Regarding the ash trees, does the beetle kill all of them or do some make it through, like they are immuned to the bugs. The borer hasnt reached my area yet but most say its unavoidable.

I'm not sure the EAB kills 100%, but it seems pretty close. It doesn't seem to harm the young Ash trees, just the ones big enough to have thick bark that the EAB bores through, and then spends time weaving around. When you cut a section of wood, the bark will peel off, and both the bark inner surface, and wood outer surface, have squiggly lines from the EAB doing its thing. It seems almost all of our Ash trees are either dead, or dying....a few still look okay, but they may just not be showing symptoms yet. We have a lot if Maple, and even Cottonwoods that seem to be filling the void.

 

[DieselnHooters]

Your description is reminiscent of what happenned to elms 20 yrs ago, the bugs digging tunnels and the barks peeling off. Not a single large elm left on my land or anywhere close as far as I can tell, small ones keep sprouting up though , they reach 6-7'' diam. and dry up and die. Beech are under attack also from both a bug and a fungi although a good 50% seem immune ? Oh well so much for diversity lol

I was hoping for a deep prolonged cold snap this winter hoping it would eliminate some or all of those exotic pests but no luck.