An enlightening read. Never considered a 'cord'.
I cut and split wood here throughout winter for ourselves and sell to customers. The wood is mostly dry, eucalypts such as Grey Gum, Red Gum, Iron bark, Spotted Gum, Stringy Bark, Blood Wood and some what we call Black/Grey Box. All above hardness of 5, heavy and strong, hot, slow burning.
Customers won't accept soft woods. They burn hot and too quick. Easy to split though. I have a lot of "Hoop Pine" A soft wood. Large logs but only use is for outside fireplaces. Good hot crackling fire.
Sale measurements are by cubic meter (cube) cut 12, 14 and 16 inch and the smaller the length makes it a little more costly due to extra cutting, splitting and loading. A 'cube' fits neatly in the back of my utility truck (pickup) or my trailer takes 2 'cubes'.
My fireplace takes 16 inch and 1 barrow load of hardwood lasts all night and I stoke it up the next morning. Customer fire places are generally 12 and 14 inch although I have cut and split 6 to 8 inch for pot belly type stoves. (Time consuming).
It keeps me busy and I have several chainsaws and a hydraulic log splitter and will spend a couple of days out on the selection dragging up logs, cutting and splitting. Getting a bit too old to do it during summer months as the heat gets to me.
Thanks for educating me with regards to a cord of wood. I'll get around to the workings of how many 'cubes' make a 'cord'.
Kind regards,
Bally
I cut and split wood here throughout winter for ourselves and sell to customers. The wood is mostly dry, eucalypts such as Grey Gum, Red Gum, Iron bark, Spotted Gum, Stringy Bark, Blood Wood and some what we call Black/Grey Box. All above hardness of 5, heavy and strong, hot, slow burning.
Customers won't accept soft woods. They burn hot and too quick. Easy to split though. I have a lot of "Hoop Pine" A soft wood. Large logs but only use is for outside fireplaces. Good hot crackling fire.
Sale measurements are by cubic meter (cube) cut 12, 14 and 16 inch and the smaller the length makes it a little more costly due to extra cutting, splitting and loading. A 'cube' fits neatly in the back of my utility truck (pickup) or my trailer takes 2 'cubes'.
My fireplace takes 16 inch and 1 barrow load of hardwood lasts all night and I stoke it up the next morning. Customer fire places are generally 12 and 14 inch although I have cut and split 6 to 8 inch for pot belly type stoves. (Time consuming).
It keeps me busy and I have several chainsaws and a hydraulic log splitter and will spend a couple of days out on the selection dragging up logs, cutting and splitting. Getting a bit too old to do it during summer months as the heat gets to me.
Thanks for educating me with regards to a cord of wood. I'll get around to the workings of how many 'cubes' make a 'cord'.
Kind regards,
Bally