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No good lying pile of firewood

BarnyardEngineering

BarnyardEngineering

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Rochester, NY
How come there is never as much firewood in the pile as you think?

I had this massive mound of firewood split on the ground. The trailer holds one full cord of wood (4x4x8) and was already level full.

The mound was taller, wider, and longer than the trailer WITH the tongue, and looked like it would fill the trailer twice over. IT wasn't one of those cheesy peaked mounds; you could park a 4-wheeler on top.

It took almost the entire pile to load the trailer. Now I have to scrounge and cut another cord of wood.
 
Thrown firewood has a good bit of shrinkage to match a cord of stacked wood. Here is what the State of Maine regs say for firewood amounts sellers have to abide by as far as volume per cord of thrown wood. A cord of 24-inch long wood thrown in a pile will look like it should be near two cords.

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Reminds me of a story. We had acid
factories in the Catskills. Hardwood was
burned slow with little air to extract
chemicals. Wood was cut by independent
cutters, purchased piled in the woods.
Buyers had to be careful because the
cutters wood stack the wood over big
stumps or rocks!
 
I assume it's kinda like laundry... Once
you fold it and neatly stack it in a
basket, it takes up far less space. :)
 
I used to sell firewood. Always advertised it as a face cord of wood. Really whatever i could load on a short bed pickup. I delivered a load to a guy. He had a rack under his carport and said this will hold a face cord like you said and I'm not paying full price if it doesn't. Well I stacked it for him and when we got the rack filled up I stopped unloading and asked for my money even though there was still wood in the truck. He said what about the wood still in the truck? You said you were only going to pay if your rack was full and now its full. I finally relented but made him realize it works both ways. I always gave good measure.
Ron
 
Sold firewood to get through college in the early 80's. I took a piece of plywood ripped in half the long way and put one on each wheel well of an F150. then a half sheet to cover the back window. And piled it as full as I could get it - it was 1.5 face cord of 16-18 wood. Sold a lot of those for $45 from the woods, and $50 if I had to throw it on at the house. We sold a lot picked up from the front yard. Looked like a huge load on the truck - not so much when piled.

Tim
 
In the early 30's my dad and his wood partner were selling cordwood for $5.00 a cord. They did it with axes and two man saws. It was hard work but it kept them fed and clothed.
 
I sell some firewood, but not as much as last year for some reason. But I only have a little over a cord left to sell. I get $200 a cord (128
cu ft) delivered within a reasonable distance. It's real dry ash, elm, birch, and weighs about 3500 lb. per cord. I also sell 17 cu ft racks
full for $25 at my house, and that's been kind of slow this summer too.
 
Andy (he's dead now) pulled that trick with farm junk. Piled it over a boulder. Junkman estimated the weight of the pile, paid Andy, then discovered the trick. Andy was so tight he'd skin a flea for the hide & tallow.
 
My Father cut logs and firewood with an ax and a 5 foot long one man crosscut saw in southern N.H. from around 1940 until 1953 when he bought a chainsaw. He
worked in the woods by himself with one or two horses to bring the logs out to a skid way. Around 1954 he built a woods tractor from an old truck, shortened it
and added a winch made from an old car rear axle and an oak pole at about a 40 degree angle with a pulley at the top to haul the logs to the skid way and also to
load his own truck. Sold his last horse then. He continued doing the logs and firewood plus 8,000 small square bales of hay a year by himself until he semi
retired in 2000. I handled a lot of those bales loading out of the field, didn't seem right not to even though he didn't seem to appreciate it.
 
Well dang! How are you doing Warren? Think of you and your father every now and again! Take care! I remember your chainsaw with the long bar, so you didn't have to bend down!
Dave
 
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