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? !(all rounds of the same size unsplit) IF IT WERE ME LOADING/STACKED IN TO THE BACK OF A STANDERD LONG BOX PICKUP TRUCK , I would stack them 3 wide and 3 high with 5 rows! this is wider than 4' as well as in height so to compress the air space between the rounds into a common cord it should be just a few arm loads more then a cord.... so for a number put to your question that wood be 45 rounds.
 
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1 chord = 128 cubic feet of splits
I have heard that solid wood of 80 cubic feet = 128 cubic feet of splits
Each piece of the 20" rounds = 3.27 cubic feet
It would take 24.5 of those rounds to make 80
With this calculation estimate, northman is the man
Not surprising.
 
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????? how on god's green earth and fuzzy math can 80 cubic feet of solid wood be stretched to 128 cubic feet of solid wood beats me to no end! 80 c. ft. to be equal to 128 c. ft. will need to mass to 1/3rd air space or be expanded to a larger form due to lack of atmospheric pressure(a vacume if you will) ! simple math and mass must have changed somewhere in time without most of us being told evidently.? besides I must be a few "chords" short of a full seasons burning..... lol
 
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Talk to these guys. LOL

AHA, the magic of marketing !
Uniform rounds (which one would expect 20" rounds to be) is 100.48 cu ft if stacked square. If stacked like a beehive, then 116 cu ft !
To get down to 70 or 80 cu ft from 128 cu ft, one needs to cross stack rounds crookedly, one way to stretch your wood for a higher cord count , eh?
Mill it down to square pieces and it is 128 cu ft - do the math rather than relying on marketing hype if you want to be honest ?

Just like electric power tools: "Develops 2 HP", really means about 2*0.707*.8 = 1.1HP useable, huh ?
 

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