Surprise campfire wood

[Nailsbeats]

My friend Chaz comes over this morning and says he needs some camp firewood. I tell him I'm out of dry stuff but I have a 20" popple that blew down in the woods. Well, we figured that would do, so we grabbed my 460, maul and the skidsteer with the cordmaster on. To the woods! Chaz cut er up and I split it all. The tree made just over 2 cords which loaded down his truck nicely. Job done in about and hour. I gave him the wood and he gave me a Mountain Dew, that's about even I'd say, lol.

I have to get going, bonfire at Chaz's tonight!

 

[crashagn]

That sounds like a pretty good deal. A friend of mine just purchased a house with a wood stove, has no firewood or access to it, no pickup. But he has 2 hands. Made a deal with him, The next time i go out cuttin and gatherin, if he helps he can have half of what ever we Load. With me runnin the saw and him chuckin into the pickup. But of course there is more labor involved. If it's green stuff will have unload it and then load up some dry ready to burn that i have already stacked.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

The tree made just over 2 cords which loaded down his truck nicely.

There's not even a cord on that truck. A cord is 128 cubic feet, tightly stacked. Nothing else is a cord.

 

[Peacock]

There's not even a cord on that truck. A cord is 128 cubic feet, tightly stacked. Nothing else is a cord.

Yep.

That might be 2 face cords there, but I doubt it. I can get a cord in my 8ft. bed but it's a stretch. We're talking stacked above the cab top a bit all the way back.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Excuse me, facecord. I built the Cordmaster attachment to meter firewood out and it holds exactly a facecord of 20" long pieces when stacked 2 rows deep. There are over 2 facecords on that truck, no debate. There are 10 facecord on the 30' gooseneck pictured.

 

[wdanforth]

Cordmaster

Nice trailer and face cordmaster:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[wdchuck]

THanks for the clarification Nails, that is a pile of fun in that truck.

 

[GeeVee]

I spy....

...a Stihl Splitting Maul. If you like that one, you'll LOVE the smaller one. The black short plastic handled one is just as good as that heavier one. In tandem, you don't need more than them.

 

[blackdiesel]

Around here we call a face cord a rick, that clears up a lot. A rick can be a fourth a cord (12"), a 3rd of a cord(16"), or a half cord(24"). It's just has 2 mesurments 4x8. It takes 2.4 rick of Your 20" wood to make a cord. (but you knew that). I know that it's only leagal to sale wood in cords, or / of a cord. Be you can't tell all these old people that around here.

 

[Nailsbeats]

...a Stihl Splitting Maul. If you like that one, you'll LOVE the smaller one. The black short plastic handled one is just as good as that heavier one. In tandem, you don't need more than them.

I use the Fiskars splitting axe in tandem with this Stihl maul and really like the results. The Fiskars is super light, lifetime warranty, and really easy to split on the smaller stuff. The Stihl picks up everything else, if not it goes to the woodsplitters.

 

[ShoerFast]

Sounds like a fun day!

If I might explain why some are so quick to mention that a cord is a cord, many of us have seen were so many good honest people have been shorted by someone calling a cord something else. (face-cord rick, ect...)

Selling firewood, the easiest way to beat competition is to sell a true 'cord' and watch the customer's jaw drop when they see the true size. (so many have been ripped off it seems?)

It's the best way to get call-backs the fallowing year and referrals it seems also.

 

[Austin1]

Well I get 6x8x3 in my truck, 8ft bed 6' wide by 3 feet high with the topper on the truck. By my math that should be 144 square feet of wood a bit more than a cord. I only do that if it is dead dry standing wood. If I cut green wood I cut until the mudflaps hit the ground lol.

 

[turnkey4099]

Sounds like a fun day!

If I might explain why some are so quick to mention that a cord is a cord, many of us have seen were so many good honest people have been shorted by someone calling a cord something else. (face-cord rick, ect...)

Selling firewood, the easiest way to beat competition is to sell a true 'cord' and watch the customer's jaw drop when they see the true size. (so many have been ripped off it seems?)

It's the best way to get call-backs the fallowing year and referrals it seems also.

True. I do NOT understand why people insist on using non-standard measures, especially in professional forums such as this. In the USA there is only one standard measure and that is a cord. All other measures are regional only and will not be found in any regulation that covers weights and measures.

Thus a "rick" can be a single row of wood piled in any dimension you want. A pile 1 stick wide 40' high and two miles long is a 'rick'. So is pile of 2 sticks (provided they are side by side)

A 'face cord' is meaningless unless you specify the length of the stick and again will not be found in any regulation.

Harry K