Ratio of solid to airspace in stacked firewood cord calculation?
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Yep, I'm currently (and temporarily) a town dweller... I was bored to the point of insanity until I purchased a pontoon early this summer, I spend my time on the river fishing to ease the pain.
My wood furnace is in storage, my saw has only been used once in the last year, and dad took the splitter to the lake home this spring.
That's not quite the same thing because soil contains multiple types of materials, some of which will filter in between the grains, and some which is somewhat elastic or semisolid allowing it to change shape to fit available space between solid grains.
Look at it this way...
If you had a bolder the size of, say a car, and broke it up into irregular pieces the size of, say a basket ball... which will occupy more space, the bolder or the pile of rocks??
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I think big rounds have more air in it than anything else. What I call rough split has the least. Split small in the middle somewhere.
I used to sell a Woodyard loads of roughsplit, I could haul 4, but he paid me for 4.5 because after they split it it made 5. But I’ve sold loads of unsplit big round pecan and had customers mad because it only made 3.75 once split, then again that was just one guy so who knows. I don’t sell the tiny split stuff so I don’t know about that. I like mine to last in the fireplace.
I used to sell a Woodyard loads of roughsplit, I could haul 4, but he paid me for 4.5 because after they split it it made 5. But I’ve sold loads of unsplit big round pecan and had customers mad because it only made 3.75 once split, then again that was just one guy so who knows. I don’t sell the tiny split stuff so I don’t know about that. I like mine to last in the fireplace.
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"Semisolid" soils?
No such thing as a gradation test on water content.
Back to the original point , fine grained materials will fall into place with less air than large grained materials.
Yes, consistency of soil, Atterberg Limits.
They wont do it on their own without roughly 7 years to reach original density and they wont do it without moisture.
But that's an apples and oranges comparison... Take a piece of wood with a known volume and split it in half. Now try to get it back into a package with the same volume as the unsplit piece. Split wood is like a puzzle that just doesn't go back together quite right. Generally speaking.
It seems odd but true. A stack of rounds will expand by about 10-15% after splitting and restacking, the smaller the splits the more it expands.
The definition of cord way back when was "4'x4'x8' or 128 cu ft well stowed (stacked) so that a mouse can run through but the cat can't follow"
I saw that in some book back abut the 60s.
I find that I sstack much tighter when hand splitting vs using log splitter. I take more time placing pieces as I stack after splitting each chunk.
take a box lid, cut thin rounds off of carrots, put as many as you can into the lid, dump out, cut each round into halves and repack into the lid. They won't fit no matter how you work at it unless you put every 1/2 chunk mated to it's other half.
nope. Only if you stack them back into the round shape they started with.
You will, with an accurate measure find that a bucket of large chunks of rocks will not fit back into the bucket after grinding them smaller. The 'lots of little' voids add up to more than the big voids you had.
How about coffee beans vs ground.
I do not have a rock grinder handy.
I was most seriously overloaded with sand not crushed stone. The stone was limestone, the sand concrete sand as opposed to Mason sand.
There is the effect of a wall or boundary. If 2 or 3 or 4 rocks fills the bucket and they are crushed to pea sized who thinks the bucket will be full.
One firewood seller has divider in his dump truck, says it is so he can do half loads. Seems a way to lessen amount to me.
I do not have a rock grinder handy.
I was most seriously overloaded with sand not crushed stone. The stone was limestone, the sand concrete sand as opposed to Mason sand.
There is the effect of a wall or boundary. If 2 or 3 or 4 rocks fills the bucket and they are crushed to pea sized who thinks the bucket will be full.
One firewood seller has divider in his dump truck, says it is so he can do half loads. Seems a way to lessen amount to me.
The coffee beans grind down about 100 to one or more (100 grounds per bean). That cancels out almost all the air space between the beans. That's like making sawdust out of a firewood round.
When you split logs, you don't get 100 logs out of a 1 cu-ft round or even a 2 cu-ft round. So, the air space is still everywhere between the firewood splits and that exceeds the air space between the rounds.
This thread got pretty well answered early on. It did not even involve rounds and how they might stack.
