Logs into firewood

[Wood Doctor]

So you're saying a "Rick" could be a 1/3 of a cord.....or it could be 1/2 cord.
I think I'll just stay in the dark ages and call a cord a cord. Lol

Dave

A cord is 128 cu ft. A face cord is one-third of that and I can easily load two face cords into my Ford Ranger--more than that as shown on my avatar. A Rick of wood is undefined. I recall a few guys in Boston using that term back in the '70s. Nobody knew what they were talking about back then and it appears from what that I read here that nobody today knows what a Rick of wood is either.

 

[turnkey4099]

A cord is 128 cu ft. A face cord is one-third of that and I can easily load two face cords into my Ford Ranger--more than that as shown on my avatar. A Rick of wood is undefined. I recall a few guys in Boston using that term back in the '70s. Nobody knew what they were talking about back then and it appears from what that I read here that nobody today knows what a Rick of wood is either.

The same applies to "face cord" which also has no legal definition.

Why not use "2/3 cord"?

Harry K

 

[CRThomas]

$15? You must put a low value or your time and labour.

I pay 15.oo dollars a rank in logs delivered. I bundle 90 bundles deliver it and back home between 12:00 and 14:00 for $225.00 for 6 to 8 hours I guess I am cheap. If go in to the city with a trailer load. That 250 bundles there I get 7.00 dollars a bundle but it takes two days and I have to get a motel room for the night. I have to get three different permits because I sell in different town ships that 25.00 a town ship. I sell as much bundled firewood in the summer as winter. later

 

[CRThomas]

around here, a self loader hauling green birch will bring you between 8.5 and 10 cords. All depends on how straight the logs are, how good the operator of the crane is, and if he alternates the butts and tops while he is loading. It also depends on whether or not he cares about getting caught being overloaded.

On my semi i can carry 12 cords of green birch before i am in overweight territory.

is that a ten wheeler you are talking about 8.5 to 10 cord. My delivery man said he has about 6 cord breaks down to 18 ranks here a rank is classed as a pickup load. I get 90 bundles out of a rank (answer me back on this) later

 

[woodnutty]

Woodnutty

New here but anyone buy by the bush cord ?

 

[philoshop]

Welcome to the site, Woodnutty!
Can't say that I've ever heard of a 'bush cord'.

 

[NSMaple1]

A cord is a cord is 4 x 4 x 8. Anything else is some kind of local hokey pokey.

 

[ba-1]

Let me ask you this. How many level bedrail pick up loads Would there be in cord ?

 

[zogger]

New here but anyone buy by the bush cord ?

I have heard that term mentioned on this site before by your fellow canuckistanians.

It's sorta funny, but firewood apparently is about the last hold out for regional terms/sizes/measurements. Imagine going to gas stations and never really knowing what was coming out of the pump as per quantity...One gas station might offer "$50 dollars for one oilman's bucket" next station down the road might offer $20 for five good sloshes"

Around here, the most common term is "the load" for firewood. Yes, some places actually use the term cord, but load is more common.

I should start sellin..ranked up face rick loads!

 

[blackdogon57]

"Bush cord" is a very common term here in Ontario. It means full cubic cord (128 cubic feet) in these parts. As a firewood dealer around here you better get used to people asking " how much for a bush cord". If you try and correct them on legal terminology they will buy from someone else.

 

[woodchuck357]

"Bush cord" is a very common term here in Ontario. It means full cubic cord (128 cubic feet) in these parts. As a firewood dealer around here you better get used to people asking " how much for a bush cord". If you try and correct them on legal terminology they will buy from someone else.

If you are going to do business, you have to speak the language. That means using local terms and understanding what your customers are saying! If in doubt let them clarify, they have the money and money talks. I seems some folks are intent on being right and ignorant of others customary measurements. You may educate the customer with the legal terms right down the road to deal with someone who understands what the customer wants.

 

[zogger]

If you are going to do business, you have to speak the language. That means using local terms and understanding what your customers are saying! If in doubt let them clarify, they have the money and money talks. I seems some folks are intent on being right and ignorant of others customary measurements. You may educate the customer with the legal terms right down the road to deal with someone who understands what the customer wants.

Ya, that is true, and no one here is a customer there. When we discuss firewood quantities HERE on this site, we have to all speak the same terms, and precisely because of these regional differences, it is up to the poster to translate into "cord" or fractions of a cord, so we all can be on the same page for discussion purposes.

Example,. I have never, ever in my entire life heard the term "rank" as pertains to a quantity of firewood. I have only read it here. Same with "bush cord" and if I had to guess, and wasn't told like up above, I would have guessed some "bush" cord was smaller than a full regular cord. Otherwise, why add the extra word? Same with "face" cord. Whos face? I have seen firewood sold from 12 inches to 24 inches long chunks, so how much in some "face" cord? And to the OWB guys, they might want 36" chunks, man, that is a hefty "face" cord then.

Locally, use what works and makes money, on the forum here, we have to be on the same page, which is cord, or 1/2 cord, 1/3rd cord, etc.

Then "how much on a truck" load..err. What size/kind of truck??

Single axle big flatbed, double axle, tri axle, who knows....

No one is getting charged by the word to post here, just a bit clearer background information, a few more words and a better description of what something is about, helps other people answer questions and add to the discussion.

 

[farmer steve]

ya, that is true, and no one here is a customer there. When we discuss firewood quantities here on this site, we have to all speak the same terms, and precisely because of these regional differences, it is up to the poster to translate into "cord" or fractions of a cord, so we all can be on the same page for discussion purposes.

Example,. I have never, ever in my entire life heard the term "rank" as pertains to a quantity of firewood. I have only read it here. Same with "bush cord" and if i had to guess, and wasn't told like up above, i would have guessed some "bush" cord was smaller than a full regular cord. Otherwise, why add the extra word? Same with "face" cord. Whos face? I have seen firewood sold from 12 inches to 24 inches long chunks, so how much in some "face" cord? And to the owb guys, they might want 36" chunks, man, that is a hefty "face" cord then.

Locally, use what works and makes money, on the forum here, we have to be on the same page, which is cord, or 1/2 cord, 1/3rd cord, etc.

Then "how much on a truck" load..err. What size/kind of truck??

Single axle big flatbed, double axle, tri axle, who knows....

No one is getting charged by the word to post here, just a bit clearer background information, a few more words and a better description of what something is about, helps other people answer questions and add to the discussion.

liked. Fs

 

[farmer steve]

Let me ask you this. How many level bedrail pick up loads Would there be in cord ?

6' bed or 8' bed? thrown on or stacked? ford, dodge or chevy?

 

[Whitespider]

Ya, that is true, and no one here is a customer there. When we discuss firewood quantities HERE on this site, we have to all speak the same terms...

Yeah... LIKED +2.

Regional terms have no place on an international bulletin board.
But therein lies the rub... "international".

zogger (and others, including me) believe we should all use the "cord" or fractions of it to describe a quantity of firewood on this site... but "cord" is an American term, not an international one. "Cord" is based on the "cubic foot", but the majority of the world does not use inches, feet and yards for base measurement. Where the metric system is used, firewood is sold by the cubic meter called a stère (o.276 cord), three stères referred to as a "corde" in some countries... or even sold by the metric tonne. Heck, firewood lengths are referred to in centimeters, not inches.

Hey, I'm not saying we should "go metric" here on AS... just pointing out that "cord" ain't necessarily gonna' be a "universal" term for everyone logging into AS.

 

[GeeVee]

Let me ask you this. How many level bedrail pick up loads Would there be in cord ?

You're going to have to buy that log load, split it, then load up your truck like the umpteen hundred loads you got in the last few years for your parents. Then, do the math on how many real cords you'll be getting out of that log load you had delivered.

We just aren't going to be able to help you figure it out.

I really think you will prefer not to have to hunt it down and then buck round split and stack....

 

[hardpan]

Stacked, full size truck, fleet side, approximately, 1 cord = 1 1/2 pick up loads (level at bedrail)

 

[zogger]

Yeah... LIKED +2.

Regional terms have no place on an international bulletin board.
But therein lies the rub... "international".

zooger (and others, including me) believe we should all use the "cord" or fractions of it to describe a quantity of firewood on this site... but "cord" is an American term, not an international one. "Cord" is based on the "cubic foot", but the majority of the world does not use inches, feet and yards for base measurement. Where the metric system is used, firewood is sold by the cubic meter called a stère (o.276 cord), three stères referred to as a "corde" in some countries... or even sold by the metric tonne. Heck, firewood lengths are referred to in centimeters, not inches.

Hey, I'm not saying we should "go metric" here on AS... just pointing out that "cord" ain't necessarily gonna' be a "universal" term for everyone logging into AS.

man, you called me zooger, something I pick outta....

err.

hey, I actually like the idea of that cubic meter for firewood measuring.

I know it won't happen in the US any time soon, but would work better over all this other nonsense.

ehh, gotta go out cut me up a ricked up rank face, 'till I'm bushed!!

 

[Whitespider]

oops... zooger, zogger... my bad and fixed!
Heck, even the Spider Man ain't perfect.

 

[philoshop]

So a Zooger would be roughly equal to two and a half rick-ranks plus or minus the bushed face? Got it.