Quantify a "cord"?

[PA Plumber]

I've just gotta ask:

Does LOML mean : Love Of My Life ?

I just haven't seen/noticed that one until today.

If so, could that be your saw, truck, firewood pile, girl, wife, other?

 

[scotclayshooter]

There. Is that better Looks like I've got a saw or two to work on.

Cheers much better
I somehow think you will ALWAYS have a saw or two to work on!!!!!!!

 

[Wood Doctor]

LOML Def.

I've just gotta ask:

Does LOML mean : Love Of My Life ?

I just haven't seen/noticed that one until today.

If so, could that be your saw, truck, firewood pile, girl, wife, other?

HeHeHeHe. Correct. LOML is usually wife, girlfriend, etc.

Sometmes it's my dog, Lady, but lately its my Stihl MS 361.

BTW, I tend to agree with NPKenny. After I've cut and loaded two full loads to reach a full cord of wood, I've put in a day's work. One of the best ways to measure your cord is to examine what's left of your back. lol!

 

[scotclayshooter]

True, but you would be surprised at how many barrel stoves there are that handle 28" logs with ease--more than most splitters can manage without turning the log sideways. My large Federal Airtight 288 can swallow a 25" log, but I generally cut the logs 20" or less so LOML can handle them easier.

One thing I found out about log weights. The berry woods (e.g., hackberry and mulberry) tend to absorb more moisture and if cut green in the late spring or summer, they often weigh the truck down even more than oak or hickory. When dry, the berry woods are surprisingly light.

However, I think the heaviest load I ever pulled from a worksite was a full load of green locust. I told my Ranger after that one, "Never again, sweetheart. I love you too much." LOML was riding with me and she thought I was talking to her."

I dont know if you have them in the US but we use a ford transit tipper it carries 1.3 tonnes legally im sure we have had 2.3 on it at times shhhhh
we were 2 months from nov 2006 doing nothing but clearing windblown sycamore, beech, caledonian scots pine, ash, poplar and goodnes knows what else now in quiet times were catching up on making it into firewood.
with the work involved i dont know how anyone can make wothwhile money out of it

 

[J.Walker]

A cord of wood

I just sell wood by the truck load. The wood is stacked in rows in my half ton truck bed even or a little over the bed rails. The amount of wood is a little over a face cord.

 

[romeo]

Hey Scotclayshooter,

The exact measurement of a cord in Scottish would be:
4 whiskey bottles x 4 whiskey bottles x a passed out Scotsman and 2 whiskey bottles

 

[Wood Doctor]

Selling Firewood

I dont know if you have them in the US but we use a ford transit tipper it carries 1.3 tonnes legally im sure we have had 2.3 on it at times shhhhh
we were 2 months from nov 2006 doing nothing but clearing windblown sycamore, beech, caledonian scots pine, ash, poplar and goodnes knows what else now in quiet times were catching up on making it into firewood.
with the work involved i dont know how anyone can make wothwhile money out of it

Well, I have discouraged many local woodcutters on trying to make big bucks selling firewood, especially at the local price here--about $200 for a full cord.

At that rate, you are talking 100 cords a year just to put food on the table and pay rent. I doubt one man could ever do it and maintain his sanity. Two might, but then you have to divide it up.

Our primary trouble is the abundance and rather low price of natural gas and propane. The rural area people burn propane and the city folks burn NG or use electric heat pumps. There might be a restaurant market for firewood, but that's hard to line up. Even bagged logs are less than $5 a bundle.

On the other hand, I saved over $100 last month burning my wood stove and usually save about $500 a year off the normal heating bill in the neighborhood. Still, the local demand just isn't there.

 

[scotclayshooter]

Hey Scotclayshooter,

The exact measurement of a cord in Scottish would be:
4 whiskey bottles x 4 whiskey bottles x a passed out Scotsman and 2 whiskey bottles

LOL been there!
by the way there is no e in WHISKY GRRRR
shame us scots keep all the good stuff for ourselves and export the crud lol

 

[romeo]

LOL been there!
by the way there is no e in WHISKY GRRRR
shame us scots keep all the good stuff for ourselves and export the crud lol

Ship me a few bottles of good scotch and I promise never to spell whisky wrong again.

 

[Festus Haggen]

The mob rules

Now, back to a cord of wood. How can you sell firewood that is 24" long? That won't fit in much of anything but an outdoor wood burner.

My indoor furnace takes 24" wood, can go to 26 or 28, but that's my "slop factor" when I cut a few too long. Anything longer than 24" is hard to handle and stack. Also keeps my mooching brother in law from nabbing wood from my pile, his stove will only take 16"

My wood trailer is 4x8, put 2' sides on it. Figure that mounded it's definitely 1/2 cord. And yes, I bent the trailer frame with green locust, my main source of firewood is a huge stand of dead black locust, so I wasn't thinking of the extra weight. And locust starts out with less moisture than many other woods, so it doesn't get much lighter.

Also found this while searching for why it's called a "cord"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cord

 

[hoot gibson]

So a "tall cord" is one foot long by 128 feet high? :biggrinbounce2:

Or... would that be a "short cord?" :monkey:

lay off the short cord jokes h

 

[Blazin]

4'x4'x8' = Full cord here in NY the last time I checked! Oh and there might be a few crushed brew cans in there too

 

[Gumnuts]

lay off the short cord jokes h

What about a Snellerised cord ? That would be good .
Or a 009 cord ? Not so good .
A Texan cord ? BIG



here in dingo land we sell by tonnage and cubic meter




whats the but for?......
pooping silly !! ( my jokes are dum -but kilts are girly)

 

[Ray Bennett]

Cool mystery solved at last
Bet im not the only person that didnt know!!
OK our ford transit pick up level to the top of the sides is 120 cubic feet so i guess most of our loads are about a cord about a tonne to 1.3 does that sound about right weight wise?

You can not fit a cord on a pickup that does not have racks. I have many customers that have bought from people selling pickup loads to the top of the bed as a cord. And when I pull in they ask if that is 2 cords when they see how much wood a full cord is. A cord of oak will also squat an f250 but it will handle it. When you sell a man an honest cord you will rarely loose his buisness.

 

[berryman70]

4'x4'x8' = Full cord here in NY the last time I checked! Oh and there might be a few crushed brew cans in there too

That's what I call a real cord also, but most everybody around here calls a face cord, a cord 4' x 8' x 16-20" My Dad & Uncle use to tell me they cut wood during the depression for $2.00 a cord (full cord) & it had to be stacked so tight that a squirrel couldn't pass though it.

 

[ropensaddle]

Anymore my back will tell me when I have split a cord and at
the second cord it is time to go in if it is hot 0ut!

 

[walrus9]

There must be over a dozen cord calculators on line. Just enter your measurements

http://www.firewoodcenter.com/testcord.shtml

 

[berryman70]

I think a good cord of wood should be like a good woman - tight & well stacked!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ray Bennett]

I think a good cord of wood should be like a good woman - tight & well stacked!!!!!!!!!

And burning HOT

 

[Festus Haggen]

And burning HOT

And out in the yard, under a tarp. :jawdrop: