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True volume of FIREWOOD STACKED vs. LOOSE CORD WOOD
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2023
- Do you stack your firewood and do you need to? I discovered that wood in a loose pile actually dries faster and better than a stack of tightly arranged wood in a full cord pile!! #firewood
Here in Maine, Cordwood is measured 4' x 4' x 8' in the round before bucking and splitting. Maine has a firewood law for selling split stove wood that a cord thrown is 180 cf. That 180 cf. neatly stack will measure between 105 cf. And 110 cf.
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I look at a pile of split firewood as money in the bank. You will be cashing out all winter long. Enjoy The Journey - Cheers
EXACTLY!!!!
It was definitely the slowest summer of sales since we started selling firewood. It’s picking up now since the cool weather hit👏🏻GNI
Get Tony back on there. You two always make me smile.😂. Better yet get your brother and Tony on a video. 👍
Tony will be on real soon, we went to a logging show together and the videos I did there will be on soon!
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one having a slow summer. I was trying to figure out why that was happening but you've clarified the issue. Thank you for an other awesome video.
Thank you for watching!
Firewood sales have been going crazy for me in the Nashville area. Tripled my August numbers over last year. People are stocking up for the winter with multiple face cords and I am landing more residential smokers. It seems most sellers around here run out of inventory by Halloween and then I am the last man standing with seasoned firewood.
I’m in Mt Juliet, TN and sell to just a couple of people when I have excess. As soon as the first slightly chilly weekend in fall happens everyone is ready for firewood! Great to hear your sales are doing well!
That is great to here, a high population high income area is good for sales!
I'm not even putting my ad up for "Delivered and Stacked" wood till November this year. I'm in Cookeville.
Thats a brilliant trailer. Guess having the tipping function makes all the difference.
Yup, dumpers are great!
Honestly relieved to hear others have been slower. I been advertising like crazy with lots of views but not alot of new client sales compared to years pasts. Been steady though. I been chalking it up to a saturated market and slower spending habits with the tighter economy. Either way i expect winter to get busy. People like to wait until last minute when the wallet it tight. Excellent video
Yup, I agree!
Great looking wood!! Glad its drying out well!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Yup, thanks!
I dont sell firewood,,just cut most of my own, just in recent years been buying a little. From what I see here on the coast of Washington state there are more people selling firewood than ever before,,and fewer people burning it. I think sales are down for many of them, and many have lowered their price. Three people I know purchased pellet stoves this summer thinking it will be cheaper and easier than buying firewood, I think they may be correct. I dont have enough fire wood yet and think t will use my electric if I run out. They have been pricing firewood here like its Seattle and people rarely get the "cord" of wood they pay for. I thought to start with that most that cut firewood here were just not honest,,,but after seeing what people on line say,,I think that most just dont understand what a cord of firewood is,,,a nicely stacked pile of fire wood that measures out to 128 cubic feet. I myself can't always tell from just throwing a bunch of wood in a trailer how much it is. But from watching Chris loading his truck and trailer from stacked cords so many times, im pretty sure he good at telling how much wood he's delivering.
Yup, I have done so many thousands of loads that I know how much I deliver no matter the amount they want. After stacking and loading in my trailers and truck I know how much is needed and then I throw a little more in! People always get more than the ordered amount.
Yup for most people I would agree.
Awesome vid that day Chris! 🔥💯👍. See you soon! Andrew from NB :)
Thanks for watching again!
Good work Chris! Have a great monday...
Thanks Bobby!
Last summer I sold all my wood by mid July. But about a week before Labour Day BOOM! Sold all but a couple of bundles. I’m in SW Ontario. Lots of forest fires and fire bans in the northern areas definitely didn’t help sales.
Nice work!
I've bought my first moisture meter, thank you never thought about drying time,learn every day
Yup, they work great just make sure to split the wood and test the inside!
Yup!
Good morning all!
Good morning, Kurt. Hopefully, you have a great day 😁👍
@@DanielAtkinsFirewood thank you, the same to you!
Hello!
🤘Slow summer for campfire wood as it rained all summer but 2 nights in the 40s early this month has me SOLD OUT of dry wood. Waiting on the ash to dry…
Sales are good!
I’ve over the past two days hauled home enough pallets to create 2 wood bins. I’ll have to wait until spring to put them together and fill them (surgery) will keep me out of the wood yard until spring. Keep on cutting
Good luck healing!
My first job was working in the produce dept at a small grocery store. My cranky old boss would always remod me that you cannot sell the product from the coolers or stick room. Get it out on the floor.
We had drought here. Burn ban. 100 degree humid weather and smoke from Canada with air quality alerts.
I had one piece of wood leave the wood yard. Peri helped himself to a hunk of maple and then he proceeded to run around the neighborhood.
Glad to see the trsiler leaving the yard.
Yup, it was a hot summer!
Thats really good to know I will measure my dump trailer and see. I normally stack it in cord sized stacks then throw it in the dump trailer.
Yup, just make sure you get it right, shorting someone will loose you a customer fast.
Good to see that sticks in the middle of that heap are nice and dry. I’m worrying whether the mega-bin will fare as well.
We shall see!
Another great 👍 job and video Chris ❤😊😮
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good mornin.
!!!!! Yup, they all are when I am alive!
Yep very slow summer for me here in the northeast. Usually sell a decent amount of bundles and so does the store but not this time. Had a great August and Sept so far so good though.
Yup, same for a lot of people!
My new hob has me so far behind on firewood production that im going to have to call one of you fornheating wood this year. My niece and nephew that sell bundles by my previous home had killer sales this year
Good to hear they are doing well!
18:20 RIP plant.
it happens!
Nice video Chris. Glad to hear that the pallet corrals are drying so well. I guess winter will be the test as to if it stays dry without covering. GNI
I will cover most of it with tarps.
most of it!
@@InTheWoodyardis that to keep the snow off it or to reduce the volume of water running into the middle? Keen to see how you do that
Probably it was the Canadian forest fires. Nobody wanted to burn wood with excessive smoke in the air already
No, I highly doubt that. Heat but mostly poor economy with high inflation is the the likely reason.
Technically a cord is; 128 cu ft prior to cutting and splitting ( logs). So it can shrink down to 92 cu ft stacked after that cutting and splitting. At least in Canada.
Yes that is a log (pulp) cord 4x4x8 and a firewood cord is also 4x4x8 and when you cut split and stack a log (pulp) cord it is reduced to about 5/6 of a full cord.
yup, there is shrinkage!
Terminology used when explaining to customers what a cord is. lawyer proof. Keep up the good work@@InTheWoodyard
Hey Chris! I received "two free facecords, 2 ricks, or 2/3's of a cord however you wanna call it" of pine that was bucked up last year at my neighbors. Brought my splitter over last weekend and split into the truck. Got the pine because my favorite firewood channel says pine is fine. lol! Well the very last piece i tossed over my tailgate surfed across the pile and blew out the windshield. Thought of you again because of your 40yr streak of not busting a windshield haha. The bark was peeling from it being dead and the underside was slippery causing it to go for a ride! Your name may have been used in vein a couple times! haha Anyway, love your videos and i have been following since you started.
Oh noooooo! Sorry about that!
If you could suggest an easier way to load the wood in the truck and trailer, then what would you suggest?
Hire a kid, Use a tractor with a bucket, use an elevator, invite a few friends over for a beer and tell them wood first????
i havent set up my seasonal firewood stand yet, but have been thinking about it. i know my other side gigs salesthrough , have had massive booms and busts ,this summer. summer was slow, but the last 3 weeks, have been higher than normal.
Yup, sales go up down and up again eventually.
Totally impressed by the big bin moisture test results. GNI
Yup, the wide open area is the reason why!
nice couple of loads of dry wood. I have been selling more birds then wood. Have a good day my friend.
Thanks for watching Tom!
Are you planning on covering the wood piles to protect against snow/rain/ice when winter comes??
Yup, late fall.
yup!
I sold 1 bundle this summer. It was 105’f that day 🤣
yup, many people had that same report!
Good Night Irene
Thanks Dave!
HI THERE STOPPED TO KEEP A EYE ON YOU , JOHN
Hello Mr. John! See you in a few weeks at the Bunyan!!
thats great ,have another saw for you to sign . john@@InTheWoodyard
I wish I had more wood to sell. My goal was to sell 20 full cords and so far Ive sold about 8-10 full cords but misjudged how much wood I actually had. I need to keep 4-5 cords for myself and have about that much left. My pallet bins now are 16x16 x4 and next year making them 28x28x4 so hopefully going to be able to hold roughly 30 cords when heaped up. Still cutting so maybe I can squeeze out another few cords because people are calling now everyday.
Just keep cutting!!!
hi Chris, I'm wanting to know. What AVG daily temps do you get spring to autumn. And what AVG rainfall?
My spot is windy and has some direct sunshine every day but I'm wondering if we are too wet here for the large heaps to work as well as they are for you.
We have all 4 seasons but winter is the longest by far! I am not sure on the rain, but sometimes we get a lot and sometimes we need more.
@@InTheWoodyard I think I'll throw a tarp on top. This pile is going to be 2024-25 winter so no rush. We have an AVG of 95 sun days a year here but 190 rain days. Although total volume of rain is not bad for our latitude. Snow is variable. Recent years seeing less and less
Thanks. I always thought it was 160 cubic feet for thrown in wood. 🤷🏻♂️
I did the math and I think you are right! I was told years ago it was 180 but if you multiply 128x 1.25 it is 160. I need to make a new video!!! I knew it was 25-30% more volume with loose wood!!!
@@InTheWoodyard 👍🏻
Chuck is back 😂 im still splitting wood and stacking it cause its still cold early spring here🥶 GNI 🥝🙋
Good Morning or Evening. Splitting and stacking here while the rest of the pack takes their afternoon naps. The long and lean mean green machine is calling to me. Oh Ann Marie ......you who......I also remade my pallet racks. I had to remind myself that I am not making a coffee fable.
Keep at it!
sounds great!
Sales for me i think were steady. I truly dont know though as I didn't keep track like i did in years past..
Most everyone I talked with sold much less.
August was a bad month, super hot here in pa. Barely sold 10 bags of wood
How much is ten bags of firewood worth?… 100 bucks!
Yup!
Yes, $10 a bag
@@justinvanscoy140 why not just sell one cord for 240-260 bucks and welp…make more money in one shot…call it a year…or keep selling more! Or sell it in the “face cords “ for 120 or something and make even more on a full cord!
Well Dun!
Thanks!
20 below, Good to go!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for watching!
It will all sale...Always does!👍
Yup, eventually!
G’morning Chris. Excellent taste in intro music. How dare you talk over it ! Tee-hee. My sales have been pretty soft as well. Thanks fer da info about volumetric capacity and the drying. Sweeet banjos today
GoodNightIrene
Thanks Sir Corey!
“That’s a nice piece of ash”😂😂😂
Yup!
Nice to see some Benjamin’s😊
My favorite UNCLE!
Good morning Woodhounds!!
Hello!
Dried out well ,kinda surprized me .
Yes it sure did!
And the area it is stored, on pallets off the ground, no shade, on a hill with 24/7 wind!
Good morning
Hello!
no new been here since well the first video I watched was when you had lime disease when was that?
2 years ago. Thanks for watching!
@@InTheWoodyard love your videos. I’m in Texas where it’s 108 most of the time. So when you mention building a fire I’m like hell no!
Was wondering what size your boards are on side of trailer
2x12s
Same thing here in the east
Yup!
What is the name of your moisture meter? Where did you purchase it?
One is an SBI , I have several, they all work well.
I injured my finger, cut the tendon stacking the firewood, the I should of kept my gloves on!
Yup, you gotta protect the money makers!
@InTheWoodyard yes sir i appreciate you showing me how to set up a firewood an everything from Pallets to cutting my neighborhood's tree's to get free firewood! I had learned alot by watching you and applying the ideas you gave me an they had keep me making money as well as keeping me out of trouble!!
Perfect! I was wondering the same thing about volume of a loose pile of wood. I think you're the first person I've heard define this. So is it safe to say that a loose face cord would be 60 cubic ft? Thanks Chris!
Face cord is about 42.5 cu. ft.
A stacked face cord is 42 cu.ft. A loose face cord should be about 60 cu.ft.@@TheWoodSnob
I always do lxwxh ÷ 175
Are you on sandy soil that makes a big big difference
@@LeBlancfirewood sandy soil? Can you explain what you mean here? Don't see how that has any bearing on throwing wood loose into a truck or trailer.
It's a cherry cat ! LOL......
Yup!
Nice dumps today,well dung.
Thanks!
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Thanks!!!
Hosta la vista Irene
Thanks for watching Chris!
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Thanks!!
Love delivery days $$$
yup!
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Thanks!
Inflation. The money just don’t go as far. Gas prices raised all other prices.
yup!
yup!
In the cat yard
Yup!
Welp!…your getting there…production wise, being your not stacking firewood and wasting valuable time…now you got to figure out how to load the firewood faster so delivers go up…the most important part of the operation! I mentioned it before numerous times that a excavator with a hydraulic thumb is the best all around firewood tool, but everyone seems to think tractors are…anyway I would be either selling that tractor for an excavator or figuring out how you can scoop up firewood to load up faster… that hand chucking is way too much work and a handicap!…great video as usual!
@@jakebredthauer5100 well, it can’t be a dinky home depot rental, I have a small 12,000 pound mini excavator at my woodpile, basically same as Mike Morgan from OWTM… it moves all the logs around and stacks them up, it holds them in the air so I can buck them into rounds, then I chuck the rounds into a huge pile, I drop the bucket and put on a hydraulic wood splitter to munch and quarter up huge rounds into manageable pieces for the guys running the little wood splitters…. and what use to take me about 30-45 minutes by hand to load a cord in a dump trailer takes….less than 10 minutes with the bucket and thumb on the excavator!….no brainer…get rid of the garden tractors!
Thanks!
I hate to keep thinking it but in the long run i.cant help but to figure a disc screener and front end loader is the best way to clean and load wood. Okay you get 800 totes and bags or more. Your always buying more. Coming straight of any processor or em box set up your getting tons of debri. Even with the bars. Splitting straight into a tote you get a bunch of debri. Same with bags. You can't dump them into a trailor without all that debri. So piling off the conveyor involves no bags or totes moving/handling time/buying totes. Loading with a front end loader into a disc screener into a trailer saves from hand loading and gets the cleanest possible wood. Now we need easton made to give us a break. That 30k price tag hurts. But again, over time and my body it's probably worth it
@@FirewoodJim that would be great…too much money to spend…I’m about making it. My firewood is in a humongous pile on top of 1-1/2” clean stone with French drains under it…I grab it with an excavator with a thumb and deliver it…it’s pretty clean except what the excavator knocked off…when I get to the bottom 2’ with all the crap I have a static screener I built, I just grab and sift it across the screener and chuck the clean firewood back on top of the pile and sell it!…I take all the crap and pile it up and when time permits I lay expandable metal on top of the screener and sift the crap and I’m left with nice black topsoil that I sell, the rest gets piled up to break down and get sifted again another time…excavator is the best firewood tool if you know how to use it!
@jakebredthauer5100 The larger easton made is screener is 37500. I under quoted it. It will probably be 40k next year if things don't slow down. The small is 18,500. That's what I would get. My thing is with the cages. If I'm building wire cages I'm not making firewood. You'd have to have a tall cage to make it worth it for me. I did buy some bags that are suppose to hold a loose half cord. Still going to have a chip issue in the bag though. If I split chunkier I get less chips but splitting down smaller for bundle wood makes the mess.
Good Morning Chris her in Kap Frost this morning window of the truck frost on it well cold weather test those Elect G M not for me (Hum) ty Ron
Frost is good!
Your comment about watching videos begs the question of,is it views? Or total time watched?
Both?
Watch time is king but views are #2
How much is tha full cord?
4’ high 4’ wide 8’ long, if you cut your logs at 16” it’s 3 rows wide
It's funny I would ask this question: "How much is a cord of firewood". I have cut timber of my on property for well over 25 yrs. We have burned wood for longer than that. I've always known what a cords dimension and volume are.
I'm wondering if a log on can be hijacked. Also I would not misspell a word and leave it without
correcting. The not Tha.
yup!
Not everyone knows what you know and vice-versa.
A stacked pile 4x4x8 or 128 cubic feet
Not because if they're doing stuff it's because the economy is crashing we are in for a recession coming soon probably around October people don't have the money for food gas their budgeting really hard that's why I have dropped my prices down to keep the wood moving and help people out buddy I know you're getting 360 bucks Accord and that's really good but sorry if you want to stay alive and need to drop your prices down just a little bit and help people out I ended up start selling more quarter of a cords on pallets wrapped just to help people's budgets I work with my friend my customers budgets and they're very happy I even have payment plans and it's working out quite well I have checks coming in every week good luck hope you sell a lot of wood busy as a two-peckered billy goat
Only problem with dropping prices is that costs to produce have gone up substantially....all my regulars keep their initial price when I started delivering to them....new customers pay the new higher price....Kind of opposite of how the cell phone companies treat their customers.....😁 If gas/oil and vehicle prices go down, I lower the highest prices first... This seems to keep everybody happy and enjoying their fires.
Yup, change is constant, people will eventually get mad enough to do something about it when it hurts the most.
Prices are not going to come down on much of anything.
When they get their first cool weather energy Bill's they'll start scrambling Chris.... Gas, Electric, Fuel oil, kerosene is all up 14-18% this year... Let the scrambling begin!!
Yup, the will panic then call!
A catless video
Just saying.
There was a cat at 1:52 …. Just saying
@homersimpson5668
I will have to watch again.
Yes you should! Ha!
nice catch!
Yup, some days am to busy to spend time with them.