Tossed Cord?

[woodchipper95]

What is a tossed cord in terms of volume wood is split and 16" long. Ive herd 140-200 cubic feet. I am to lazy to stack it then find out. I would think maybe 710ish? Thanks for the help.

 

[svk]

Wouldn't a tossed cord be 128 cu feet of space loaded with wood tossed in? In other words if it was stacked neatly it would come out to something less than a cord?

 

[chucker]

mn. states by its weights and measure for a cord is between 160 and 190 cubic feet . depending on the length of cut an split wood! I myself use 160 cf for 16" cut and split thrown in loosely. but with regular customers I will bump it up to 170 for good measure!

 

[svk]

Thanks for the info Chucker looks like I was way off!

 

[woodchuck357]

A tossed cord and a stacked cord should contain the same amount of wood. In other words if you were to take a stacked cord and toss it in a pile or a truck bed and measure the volume of space it takes up then you could toss another pile the same size and call it a tossed cord. Either way, a cord, stacked or tossed contains 70 to 90 cubic feet of solid wood.

 

[cutforfun]

128 cubic feet of stacked wood is a cord, there is no other way of measuring it. Cord= 128 cubic feet, its like saying how much water is in a 1 splashed cup of water. You need to stack it to find out how much you actually have.

 

[groundup]

It takes 25 to 30% more loose wood than stacked, which as said above is between 160 and 190

 

[jcl]

i live in New Hampshire, But these are the rules i go bye!

Maine State Law
Attorney General Rowe said, "We have received several complaints from consumers this firewood season. While we may go to court on some of those complaints, the best consumer protection results from consumers knowing their rights."

Measuring firewood: Under Maine law, firewood must be sold in one of three allowable units: standard cord, cubic foot, or loose thrown cord.

A standard cord is a unit of measure of wood products 4 feet wide, 4 feet high and 8 feet long, or its equivalent, containing 128 cubic feet when the wood is well stacked. For firewood averaging 12 inches long, a standard cord stacks up to be eight feet high and 16 feet long. For firewood averaging 16 inches long, a standard cord stacks up to be eight feet high and 12 feet, 10 inches long. A useful standard cord calculator is available for free on the Internet athttp://members.shaw.ca/measurementbc/calc_fire.html This site is not maintained by Maine State Government, but it seems to give accurate results.

A cubic foot is simply a unit of volume measuring one foot by one foot by one foot.

A cord of loose, unstacked wood occupies 180 cubic feet if the wood averages 12 or 16 inches in length; 195 cubic feet if the wood averages 24 inches in length.

 

[woodchipper95]

I know a stacked cord is 4x4x8=128 cubic feet! I was wondering what the cubic footage would be if I took that same stacked cord and tossed it in to my trailer how much I would need to fill it. Seems like 170-180 is a good answer. I'll go with 180 cubic feet to be safe. Thanks to all!

 

[woodchipper95]

128 cubic feet of stacked wood is a cord, there is no other way of measuring it. Cord= 128 cubic feet, its like saying how much water is in a 1 splashed cup of water. You need to stack it to find out how much you actually have.

Then you may come stack all my wood I sell, ill watchopcorn:. I was just looking for an approximant cubic footage when that same stack was thrown. Obviously its not 100%, but then again either is stacking if I were to stack a cord twice it would probably be a little different.

 

[audible fart]

Did somebody say tossed cord?

 

[woodchipper95]

Did somebody say tossed cord?
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I must be too young.

 

[audible fart]

I must be too young.

You're never too young to be an idiot, son.

 

[chucker]

You're never too young to be an idiot, son.
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or to old! lol

 

[chucker]

Thanks for the info Chucker looks like I was way off!

longer split wood will increase the amount to equal a loose cord ! what I use for a number to equal a loose cord is to multiply the stacked wood amount by 1.33 and this gets you real close to a cord!!! but extra is good too. better to much than not enough!

 

[woodchuck357]

128 cubic feet of stacked wood is a cord, there is no other way of measuring it. Cord= 128 cubic feet, its like saying how much water is in a 1 splashed cup of water. You need to stack it to find out how much you actually have.

Wrong! A cord of wood is the amount of wood that can be stacked in a 128 cubic feet space. The amount of wood that can legally be called a cord varies according to how small it is split and exactly how it is stacked.
A few years ago I had an empty stock tank that had just been repaired setting next to a full one, so after hanging a six gallon bucket on the inside of the empty one my son and I proceeded to submerge each stick of a rick of 16 inch wood into the filled six gallon bucket, catching the overflow in the repaired stock tank after carefully filling the bucket after each stick. For those who don't know, a rick is a commonly, but recently illegally, used measure of firewood in these here parts. As it works out, a rick of 16 inch wood is equal to one third of a cord. After dunking the whole rick, we calculated the volume of the displaced water that had collected in the tank and came up with the actual volume of solid wood that was in that one third of a cord.
The splits were quite small, and we came up with 22 cubic feet of collected water, when my son and his cousins repeated the experiment a couple of weeks later with a rick of much fatter splits stacked very closely they got 31 cubic feet. If you wonder why we would do it just think of the physics and math lessons those kids will never forget!

 

[PLAYINWOOD]

180 cu ft.
my dump trailer measures 12 ft x 6'6" (6.5)x 28inches or 2.3FT.
I've hand loaded a cord 3 times.

 

[blackdogon57]

180 works for me.

 

[mr.finn]

I remember the number 178 coming to mind.

 

[woodchipper95]

170-180, 180 to be safe ill go with 180 thanks all.