How many pieces of wood in a cord?

[darkbyrd]

thanks. we try to camp 2 nights a month. darn chilly last month when it got to 17. I guess I was just testy yesterday. I'm sure nobody meant to hurt my pwecious wittle feelwings.

I did figure out a way to approximate how long a cord would last based on our past usage and the capacity of a wheelbarrow.
I just gotta go into Jethro Bodine mode and do me some cipherin'. I hope I remember my gazinta's.

128 cuft and a 7 cuft wheelbarrow. but I'm sure that is to the top edge of the barrow. So allowing for air spaces below the top edge and the amount of wood piled above the top edge. Maybe 9-10 cuft in a wheelbarrow load. :msp_confused:

for the next few months I'll keep track of how much wood goes out and how much comes back. I'm sure all of this falls under the duties of the quartermaster.

just gotta use real wood and make a real pile and use a real measuring tape to get a real answer.

If you're gonna spend money on campfire wood, save a few pennies and ask for the pine/poplar/maple mix. Not as warm as oak, but better light and ambiance.

7 ft^3 wheelbarrow, piled high - unused space = I'll say 7 ft^3. 128/7=about 18 wheelbarrow loads per cord. YMMV.

 

[tbow388]

Wood Chuck

I think if a woodchuck chucks the cords into stacks he can get one or two more pieces per cord.

Heck, I didn't know anything about wood before I got on here, I still don't know anything as compared to a whole lot of others on here.

But the nothing that I didn't know before I know more of now.

Some of these guys on here will give you some answers with a attitude but you will learn from them.

No sense in backing out now. Your scouts can learn a lot from what you learn on here.

Now that I have confused myself with this round about talking I am going to the telephone pole thread!!:yoyo:

 

[Trx250r180]

this firewoods becoming too much work ,how many gallons of propane will it take to keep my shop warm between 6-12 pm 6 days a week and from 9-9 1 day a week if i need heat 7 months of the year

 

[thomas1]

this firewoods becoming too much work ,how many gallons of propane will it take to keep my shop warm between 6-12 pm 6 days a week and from 9-9 1 day a week if i need heat 7 months of the year

Potato.

 

[tbow388]

this firewoods becoming too much work ,how many gallons of propane will it take to keep my shop warm between 6-12 pm 6 days a week and from 9-9 1 day a week if i need heat 7 months of the year

Takes about 3.14 to make a pi.

 

[darkbyrd]

this firewoods becoming too much work ,how many gallons of propane will it take to keep my shop warm between 6-12 pm 6 days a week and from 9-9 1 day a week if i need heat 7 months of the year

http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/217245.htm

Assuming a seasoned mixed hardwood stack, it is worth:

$514 of LP
$430 of heating oil
$454 of electricity
$281 of natural gas

 

[terryknight]

this firewoods becoming too much work ,how many gallons of propane will it take to keep my shop warm between 6-12 pm 6 days a week and from 9-9 1 day a week if i need heat 7 months of the year

well first we need how big is your shop, how efficient is your furnace, how hot do you keep it, how often someone comes or goes through the door, you age, the day of the time of day your first born was born, divide all that by your shoe size, and i'll say 1654.73

 

[Trx250r180]

my wood stove burns about an armload in an hour ,or about a wheelbarrow full in 5 hours if i keep a hot fire to heat an uninsulated 1152 squ ft shop with open truss' with a 6-12 pitch ,how many cords a year do i need to get a potatoe ?

 

[darkbyrd]

my wood stove burns about an armload in an hour ,or about a wheelbarrow full in 5 hours if i keep a hot fire to heat an uninsulated 1152 squ ft shop with open truss' with a 6-12 pitch ,how many cords a year do i need to get a potatoe ?

Sasquatch, maybe pumpernickel depending on your ceilings. If you would tell us something about your refrigerator it would help.

 

[russhd1997]

my wood stove burns about an armload in an hour ,or about a wheelbarrow full in 5 hours if i keep a hot fire to heat an uninsulated 1152 squ ft shop with open truss' with a 6-12 pitch ,how many cords a year do i need to get a potatoe ?

It doesn't take any wood to get a potato. It takes :cow:oop:! So the answer is zero cords!

"I have a potty mouth"

 

[GeeVee]

Wow. Tough crowd. I knew it was a long shot but I wasn't expecting a smack down regarding the character of our scouts.

I had a few free minutes at work and I started thinking. I know... a dangerous thing. "Hmmm... If we are taking about 30 or so pieces of wood on a campout how long might a cord of wood last...."

So I Googled "How many pieces of wood in a cord". This thread was at the top of the result list. On reading the thread I realized that it is a silly question and has no real answer. Just as the concept of this entire thread is flawed, my original contribution was flawed as well. A better question would have been... "about how many wheelbarrow loads per cord?" And to eliminate snarky "depends on the size of your wheelbarrow" comments, my wheelbarrow is a Jackson contractor size (7 cu ft?).

now for the rebuttals...



For the record they are not dependent on bought wood. The boys gather their own wood at our camping week-ends. Sometimes on their wood hunt they hit the mother-load but sometimes it's slim pickin's. It is for those times that we bring some extra wood along. Typically about a wheelbarrow load goes into the trailer just in case. Most times we bring a lot of it back. Sometimes I wish we'd brought more.

The boys in our troop are not spoiled or lazy and have not asked for anything. They work hard for what they get and do several service projects for the community each year. This was just me trying to get some info for a question that I admitted in my reply was virtually impossible to answer.


Thanks that is a good idea. I do have two chainsaws (Homelite 16" & Stihl 20"), and an ax and maul. While I'd love to spend an afternoon felling a tree, cutting to logs, splitting it, throwing it in my F250, coming home and stacking it in a neat pile by the fence i don't have time for all that. I should however be able round up a few scouts and find time to split and stack a delivered load of logs.


Yes those are the same variables that I admitted in my original posting would make any answer a guess.

yes I am serious. The question may have been poorly stated or vague but a real question none the less. I always thought there were no stupid questions.

I didn't know there was a "firewood wanted" thread I'll check it. Thanks. I looked on Craig's list last night and saw a few "Free wood" ads. So there are other options to buying wood. In fact I'd rather not buy any wood. I've never bought firewood in my life.


Yes this has been a learning experience so I guess even with a poorly thought out question some knowledge can be gained. Until yesterday I didn't even know how much wood was in a cord. I now know it is 4'x4'x8'.
I still have no idea how many wheelbarrow loads are in a 4x4x8 stack but I'm sure I'll find out this week-end when I fill up the wheelbarrow with wood then stack it, measure it, and do the required math.

I also learned that a cord of high quality good burning wood would be in the $200-$250 price range. Good to know if we do resort to buying a load of wood,

I don't think anyone's wallet will be "drained" if we are talking about $10 worth of wood each month (with alot coming back most months). Works out to about $1 a boy added to the camping budget to ensure plenty of reserve wood just in case for the next several years. The real draining of the wallet comes from $75 sleeping bags, $125 backpacks, $50 performance undies (what happened to old fashioned cotton thermals), $75 insulated hiking boots that are outgrown every 6 months. etc. Camping isn't cheap unless you are only camping in the summer. But luckily alot of it is given at Christmas or Birthday so not too bad.

Really over the course of several years I'm sure there will be more branches brought down by storm, another dead tree by the stream, and so on. No real fear of ever running out of wood.

I will now unsubscribe from this forum.

Mike

tl;dr

While your location of USA is very patriotic, it does very little for people that are trying to help you. One of these guys could be your neighbor and they may have tons of wood for the taking. Pull your performance undies out of your woowoo.

No performance undies here. I can't afford them for myself.

Thanks for the helpful reminder not to take myself too seriously. I asked a silly question that left out major details like that the pre-cut wood was really just in case reserve stash. Then I guess i got offended at the implication that we are some sort of country club scout troop where the boys need lessons in hard work or self sufficiency. Then I got annoyed that I really don't have time to chop some wood, or ride my motorcycle, or play my guitar, etc. :msp_mad: Lots of time however to sit at piano lessons and soccer games though. priorities right.

I didn't have the answer when I asked yesterday. Hell yesterday I didn't even know how to ask the question. :confused2:
I thought it through this morning as I was composing one of my legendary verbose postings.

Price Chopper sells little bundles of wood for 5 bucks each. if they are 1 cubic foot bundles somebody is making a killing.

Before I unsubscribe I'll stick around and check out some of the other threads.

We call it a tweeter....

Dang.

And then dang some more.

I din't have the curse of having to Scout or Piano, but I sure have a lifetime of busy with kids and cash headin south - and not just my own. I know the costs of keeping kids busy, likely with a couple more decades of experience, and a few more zeros divested.

If there is someone close to this person that will deliver a cord, please PM me. I will pay, if he can come back and tell me how much he uses in a campfire, and then extrapolate how may fires he gets from said cord.

I just got to know.

Me? I reckon I use about 1/3 to 1/2 cord per fire.

Sometimes over a cord, but I have a six man Mexican Scout Troop named Pedro Juan-Carlos DeJesus Miguel Martin Manuel that I can grapple a bunch of sticks at a time.

Last thing I want to see is a kid denied because his folks aint got the scratch.

We'll get you some wood, you go find a kid that needs sponsor.... and can do the math.

 

[Blazin]

No performance undies here. I can't afford them for myself.

Thanks for the helpful reminder not to take myself too seriously. I asked a silly question that left out major details like that the pre-cut wood was really just in case reserve stash. Then I guess i got offended at the implication that we are some sort of country club scout troop where the boys need lessons in hard work or self sufficiency. Then I got annoyed that I really don't have time to chop some wood, or ride my motorcycle, or play my guitar, etc. :msp_mad: Lots of time however to sit at piano lessons and soccer games though. priorities right.

I didn't have the answer when I asked yesterday. Hell yesterday I didn't even know how to ask the question. :confused2:
I thought it through this morning as I was composing one of my legendary verbose postings.

Price Chopper sells little bundles of wood for 5 bucks each. if they are 1 cubic foot bundles somebody is making a killing.

Before I unsubscribe I'll stick around and check out some of the other threads.

You're afraid of the chainsaw, aren't you

 

[Trx250r180]

Sasquatch, maybe pumpernickel depending on your ceilings. If you would tell us something about your refrigerator it would help.

i tried storing the wood in the fridge but it was too cold to light doing that ,bad idea ,dont freeze the wood

 

[darkbyrd]

i tried storing the wood in the fridge but it was too cold to light doing that ,bad idea ,dont freeze the wood

I let my wood freeze outside, will that make it go bad?

 

[Blazin]

I let my wood freeze outside, will that make it go bad?

No, but I usually put mine in foodsaver vacuum bags to be sure.

 

[darkbyrd]

No, but I usually put mine in foodsaver vacuum bags to be sure.

I like to use freezer paper for my kindling. You reckon it would work for my cordwood?

 

[Blazin]

I like to use freezer paper for my kindling. You reckon it would work for my cordwood?

Oh absolutely! I've done that in the past and marked every piece, maple, ash, oak, pine, etc.....

 

[russhd1997]

Oh absolutely! I've done that in the past and marked every piece, maple, ash, oak, pine, etc.....

Did you cut each piece of wood the exact same length?

 

[Blazin]

Did you cut each piece of wood the exact same length?

Well yeah, I didn't put that laser bulldingo marker on my saw for looks!

 

[russhd1997]

Well yeah, I didn't put that laser bulldingo marker on my saw for looks!

I should have known! :bang: I don't have one of those bingodaubers yet. Maybe I need to get one so that I don't get too many BTUs because my wood is too long!

I bet all of the splits are the same size too.