A cord of tight stacked wood is 128 cubic feet. How many cubic feet of loose wood to equal a cord? Anyone have a formula?
Thanks & God Bless,
LAH
Thanks & God Bless,
LAH
A cord of tight stacked wood is 128 cubic feet. How many cubic feet of loose wood to equal a cord? Anyone have a formula?
Thanks & God Bless,
LAH
I think it should be sold by weight.
A cord of tight stacked wood is 128 cubic feet. How many cubic feet of loose wood to equal a cord? Anyone have a formula?
Thanks & God Bless,
LAH
I don't believe there could be a real accurate formula, there are too many variables.
I sold wood last year to a wood lot. To save labor cost I didn't want to stack the wood in my trailer only to be dumped out, and the wood lot dosen't stack their wood (they measure it when it leaves the lot). So we decided to stack 5 loads from my trailer to get a good average. The wood was loaded with a conveyor, just let it fall in and then evened out the top. The 5 loads varried from a little over 3 cords to a little under 2 1/2 cords, we settled on a 2 3/4 cord average.
I guess you have a little more controll on how tight the "loose" load would be, but with a conveyor it just depends on how the wood lands.
Andy
Timberwolf told me 170. however i always found that a bit short, so i throw on 190 cubic feet of unstacked wood and call it a cord. This being 16" wood of course.
i have a lot of customers that dont even know what a rick is
Thanks Andy, and the size of your trailer is?........LAH
Several universities (including THE Ohio State University) say split 16" wood thrown is 180 cubic feet to a cord (128 cubic feet well stacked), 190 cubic feet for 18", and 160 cubic feet for 14" wood. The 90 cubic feet figure is for solid wood, with NO airspace. Do a Google for "thrown cord".
The trailer I mentioned above has a "water level" capacity of just over 534 cu. ft. The average load was 2.75 cords which figures out to be about 194.25 cu. ft. to the cord. The wood was cut to 16" lengths and split for firewood.
The load that had 3 cords figures about 178 cu. ft. per cord, and the load that only held 2.5 cords figures about 213.71 cu. ft. per cord.
That's why I say there are too many variables to say there are X number of cubic feet in a loose thrown cord of wood. The only way to get a fairly accurate number for X is to get an average of several loads on your particular vehicle, with your particular style of loose throwing.
Andy
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