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Hey Field Grade.

I'm confused about something.

Is this about a "rick" worth of wood?




Maul included for scale.

Geno

Not even close- - - -less than half, in fact.

The amount of wood in a rick or face cord will depend on how long the pieces are so these are not the most accurate firewood measurements. The standard length for firewood is often 16″ and a rick or face cord in that case would be 1/3 cord. If the pieces were 24″ long a rick or face cord would be 1/2 cord.

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I'd say you got a pinch over a rick, just a pinch. Basing that on a descending pile behind the high mound

It goes up level with the bed rails on a 77 Beau James chebby scottsdale, it's a rick

If I was selling it to you, yes

If I was buying, no

lol

A face cord is a great way to bone the unknowing.

The good old 3/4 ton pickup load is the best.

It's a short bed extend cab,
The wood is thrown in.

'You know a load is about a cord, $100".

It's a not half a dang cord,
And I see it all the time.


There is a local POS who sells wood for buzz money,
"Disabled".

He steals much of it, any tree that falls near a road, he sneaks
in when the owners work and takes.
In the spring or early summer you see his headlights pointing at the sky
hauling his wood home.

Come fall, when he is delivering it to customers, his truck is still tail high.

Truckload my ass.

Ok, we're gonna need a Google 360 street view.

Not a cord.

And a hunny for a oak cord is a good price......

Looks like about 1/3 of a cord to me Geno.


PS.....Since length isn't taken into account there's really no such thing as a rick of firewood.



Unless of course........you're married to your cousin.

A hundred a cord (face value) is cheap. 30 years ago we got 80 a cord local. Hickory and pecan 30 years ago carried to Dallas bbq restaurants was 250 a cord ( face value 4' by 16' by 16" or 18").

I like the idea of the maul going with the sale. I gave mine away 20 years ago! 😉

Maul for scale

Not maul for sale

Unless youre on a catfood retirement budget at the end of a dirt road in...


Wait for it.... Obligatory edit watermark to make it look I said something even nastier

Throw in a scope and I'd be interested.

[quote=slumlord]Maul for scale

Not maul for sale

I would have sworn it said sale. I reread and you're right. I need to slow down when I'm reading I guess. Thanks for the correction I was wrong.

I would still send it with the sale!

I'd sell that maul

Go hydro, 22 Tons

A rick of wood is 1/3 of a cord so yes, i wood say that is about a 1/3 of a cord or a rick...

Never heard of a "rick" until the internet.

I've had numerous arguments with local woodcutters though, about what a cord is - and they were all wrong. If the truck shows up with wood in a loose pile - probably better send it away. An honest cord is hard to find....unless you cut it yourself.

Yes,there's tons of scammers or total dumb [bleep] that try to sell wood as a cord and it is far from it..A cord is 4X4X8 or 128 cf..An 8ft pickup bed filled to the rear and about cab high is about a cord...You can get a cord on a shortbed but you have to stack it really high and all the way to the bumper...And it takes 5-6 Yamaha Rhino loads to make a cord..haha

This is the correct description on wood volume! Three ricks to a cord, if cut16" long!

Bingo!

I think.

Geno

That's the answer I was lookin' for.

WTF is a rick?

Is there a standard measurement.

Now that the good Padre Vinnie has informed me, it seems it might be a face cord? Maybe sorta? Depending on length?

If, as wageslave has pointed out, that is the case, then I have more than a "rick" there.
Gonna fill one wall of my woodshed, which is 10' wide. The roof slopes some from about 7' to 6' and I use 6.5' as a working average height. The wood is cut 14" to better fit my stove. 14"/12"= 1.1666 ft. (16" will work in the stover but anything over, even slightly, has to go in COCKeyed. Which cuts down on filling it properly and is a pain.)

Therefor 10' x 6.5' x 1.16666' = 75.829 cu ft.

One cord =128 cu ft so 128/75.829 = 0.59 cord or thereabouts

Just like camper shells fit on the rails of a pickup, campers slide into a pickup, and camp trailers are towed by a pickup, let's agree that firewood is measured in cords, fractions thereof, and the infamous face cord.

Geno