How much firewood is this?

[dennis066]

Didn't care. Just being sociable!

 

[c5rulz]

And you can measure that pile of wood accurate to 6 digits to the right of the decimal? Hmmm...

Absolutely. The more decimal points the more accurate the number must be because it "sounds accurate".

Good call Wood Doctor, sometimes the things I think are funny are lost on most.

 

[turnkey4099]

The only time you should care how much is in, if you buy or sale.
Other wise, just burn it.

I just care if I have "enough". By definition, NO: "Enough" - one more (of anydthing) than I have.

 

[chucker]

The standards of weight and measurements always quotes as “ tightly stacked”. I’d say it looks tight enough. You never get all the air space out. And I’ve seen much more airy stackes claimed to be a cord. When properly restacked tighter, it was almost a quarter of a cord short.

and it will always be short! just because a person may stack wood as tight as a "jig saw puzzle" don't mean you will be close to a cord. as we all know wood dries slow and fast which is affected by the elements! so if one's tightly stacked cord of wood is such the next person next door with the same cord of wood stacked and mind you a slow stacker will be short of wood! wood shrinks as it dries as we all know ? !?! / "RIGHT" !?! ??? LOL ???

 

[chucker]

JEEZZZ ?? I wonder if wood swells when it's wet/hot?? HuMmm

 

[sirbuildalot]

5.3 ricks

 

[NCPT]

Thanks for the responses and I really was just curious. I never knew what a cord measured but this is my first year heating and gathering firewood.....I could have googled it but didn't even think about it.

 

[Marine5068]

I was wondering if I should keep or scrap the bark, it was flaking off all of that oak....thought it might dry quicker without the bark too. I have way ton of this wood available so I'm looking to make as many stacks as possible and was curious how much I already had.

Just remember that a cord is 4 feet high by 4 feet wide by 8 feet long stacked.
It'll dry and season faster with no bark. If it's oak it may take up to two years to season but you'll have some fine firewood then. I usually just burn off the bark in my fire pit. I have plenty of spruce, pine and fir for kindling.

 

[Marine5068]

Welcome and happy burning.
Here's some Sugar Maple stacked under my deck to season.
I usually season all hardwoods one year and Oak for two before burning.
I know lots of guys don't use them, but a small inexpensive moisture meter can tell you how the wood is drying.
Anything under 20% is considered burnable, I like closer to 10% myself.

 

[Marine5068]

Some small Green Ash I cut from a friends property when we were clearing it for his deck project.
It was nice and hard a split an seasoned easy. Very heavy stuff when green and I seasoned it a year like all my hardwoods.

 

[Marine5068]

Here's a tiny bit of Red Oak from trimmings from our local Hydro crew.
I saw then dropping limbs one Saturday morning so asked if I can take away the branches.
I'll take any sized hardwood, especially if it's easy access along side the road.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

5.3 ricks

2.7605367 bobs

 

[Wood Doctor]

As mentioned in post #22, just think. if we took VF's bobs measurement and squared it, we would be accurate to 14 places to the right. Heheheheheh...

I have some pin oak (red oak family) that's been seasoning in the round for over a year with good sun and wind on it. I split it last week and it's anything but red -- kind of a dark brown color. I threw some in the stove today and it burns beautifully. I had a strong draft and my Federal Airtight 288 gobbled it right up. Winter refuses to give up.