Outside wood furnace

[Booshcat]

Ahaa...Here's how they explain it at that site

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/home/heating_cooling/firewood.html

Although there are a variety of measuring units, firewood is normally sold by the cord, or a fraction of a cord. The dimensions of a "standard cord" is a stack of wood piled 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet high. You won't get a full 128 cubic feet of firewood with a standard cord because of the airspace between the pieces of the wood; the amount of wood in such a stack will depend upon the size and straightness of the pieces, how they are split and how the wood is stacked. Because of this, the total cubic feet in a cord can vary from 70 to 90 or more cubic feet.

 

[Booshcat]

Ok...so I guess if the volume of wood varied 90 CF then the cord would only have 38CF in it, which is why that guy only needed 40 "variable" cords to heat his lanai room with the slat windows.

some days I'm just so damn smart I scare myself

 

[windthrown]

Pure/solid wood measurement

Not to nit pick :hmm3grin2orange: but I thought a cord of wood was 128 CF?

Maybe it's the vast Pro-Opec conspiracy, once again confusing the dim-witted mouth breathing log burners, with that complex math cuby stuff.

Yes, for all you bright Einsteins out there, a cord of wood is indeed 128 CF. The 70/90 CF refers to the volume of actual WOOD in a cord of wood. The rest is air in the cord's volume. Take the air out of a 128 CF cord and you get the actual wood volume. 70 CF is the actual wood volume of a typical loosely stacked cord, 90 CF is the actual wood volume of a typical tightly stacked cord.

Sad sad sad...

 

[Booshcat]

Yes indeed it is a sad state of affairs, but now that I've chatted with someone who's actually managed to remove air from a cord of wood I feel much better.
I've never been able to find the valve stem myself.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Yes, for all you bright Einsteins out there, a cord of wood is indeed 128 CF. The 70/90 CF refers to the volume of actual WOOD in a cord of wood. The rest is air in the cord's volume. Take the air out of a 128 CF cord and you get the actual wood volume. 70 CF is the actual wood volume of a typical loosely stacked cord, 90 CF is the actual wood volume of a typical tightly stacked cord.

Sad sad sad...

Good thing you stated that after its a....allready, umm, ...been stated.


Aint google a ?????!

Boosh, get yourself one of them newfangled Wood compactors, all the kids are using them.......



Makes storing your wood much easier.

 

[windthrown]

The inflatable cord...

Well, there seemed to be some confusion by the other children in the class, so I tried to clarify. Now I am being accused of overclarification. Mr Hand told me that this class had actually graduated the 3rd grade... this is all just so upsetting.

There seems to also be the issue of some children trying to stuff the whole cord of wood into the stove to burn at one time. And other children are trying to put a different face on a cord of wood. And some here in South Park some parents are complaining that the air in a cord of wood is thinner at higher altitude, so apparently there will be less air in a cord of wood in Colorado. So that brings up the issue of the missing displaced air molecules in the 128 CF that the cord should have in there. So the state department is sending agents to South Park to investigate.

Enter Chef who breaks into a song: "No two cords of wood are gonna be the saaaaame..." So children, you cannot use a cord to compare one stove to anouthah. Now, where is that beer you promised me, Mr Garrison...

 

[wdchuck]

I've never been able to find the valve stem myself.

 

[ktm rider]

An observation here... some people post that they burn so many cords of wood, but they do not say what kind of wood or the condition. Or how tight the cords are stacked. Then other people get the idea that they are burning some excessive amount of wood, without knowing the type of wood or how dry the wood is.

I know for a fact that I burned between 14-16 cords a year. I have wood bin set up 4x4x8 right beside my wood eater, err, outdoor wood boiiler. I burned dry, and I mean dry red oak and white oak only. I have access to a all the wood i would ever need on my farm and I only cut the standing dead red and white oak. I even ran into about 4 cords of standing dead locust ( can't get any better wood than that to burn) and the darn thing still ate the wood like crazy.

I snce put in my AHS multifuel boiler and while I now burn mostly coal I am willing to bet that if I only burned wood for the whole winter I would only go through MAYBE 6 cords
So, there is no way anyone could ever convince me to buy another one of these things.
Just my 2 cents !!

 

[unjer]

air in the cord.....

now i got it....the air in a typicl cord is what keeps the fire burning in an airtight stove......it comes in with the wood.....now i got it....

 

[Butch(OH)]

now i got it....the air in a typicl cord is what keeps the fire burning in an airtight stove......it comes in with the wood.....now i got it....

LOLopcorn: LOL

Now that we are straight on that,,,,,