7 foot diameter firewood project

[StihltheOne]

Had a cutting party last Saturday! One big old cottonwood! Any guesses on how many cords?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

you mean it's already all split up, too? WOW! 7 guys... hmm... I want to say 3 1/2, but my guess is some where's between 4-5 cords?....

 

[StihltheOne]

you mean it's already all split up, too? WOW! 7 guys... hmm... I want to say 3 1/2, but my guess is some where's between 4-5 cords?....

We got the entire tree cut to 16 inch length and all the brush cleaned up. 5 cords already home. I am guessing 6 to 8 left there.

 

[jrider]

I don't know because we can't see the top but that's a lot of ugly splits in your future.

 

[chads]

I did a 3 footer last year and got about 12 pickup loads hauled off.
I'm guessing we got about 4-6 cord off that one .

You should get 8-10.
Have fun splitting it. I gave all of mine away and he said later he had to wait a while to let it dry out some before he could split it.
The splitter just made a ball of fibers at first.
Chad

 

[Wood Doctor]

Remember that when you double the diameter, you quadruple the volume. That means you also quadruple the number of splits for any round, assuming that all can be saved (no additional hollow). Therefore, if a 2' dia. log yields 24 logs, a 4' dia. log will yield 96.

You also quadruple the weight. My back is well aware of that fact.

 

[Kevin in Ohio]

12.5 if wet, 10 once dry!