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Only with rifles..

Tascos add $50, Simmons $75, and an old Bushnell $100,

Geno

That's my wood.
If it were for sale I'd ask for too much and not sell any probably.

Even with the maul thrown in.

Geno

Only time I ever heard the word "rick" used in regards to wood was someone talking about burning a "rick" of wood to make charcoal or some such.

Never was the word used regarding firewood where I came from..................always used cord, face cord ( and it better be 16" or I'm getting out the stubby pencil) and fractions of a cord.

You folks and your colloquialisms,

Gonna drive us edumacated peeples crazy.

Geno

Nope,

I get it in rounds from a friend who cuts for part of his income.

I split it and load it into the shed.

The exercise does me good. Dr appointment the other day. BP 122/74, resting heart rate = 64, O2 was 97%.

Not bad for a geezer who led my life.

Geno

PS, them splitters cost good money. As in enough to pay for gas down to AZ for my elk hunt. Not a hard choice for me.

No truer words were ever spoken. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm lucky......I started buying from a hard working young couple a few years ago that deliver the only true cords I can remember buying.

They have a two cord minimum......their truck bed is 8'X8' with 4'side racks......and they stack it high to allow for settlement during transport.

Last year they called and asked if I'd take a load of 14 inchers that someone canceled instead of my usual 16's. Naturally I said yes but out of curiosity I counted the stacks when they showed up......sure enough.....7 stacks 8' wide and 4" high.

Nice, sounds like a great couple to do business with.

My firewood guy is a good friend. Gives me a good price because he knows I get rounds and it's not as compact a cord. Got this years for $150 cord, juniper that's been cut for four years or so. Burns nice and clean now. Been seeing it listed in town for $170+. He usually gives me a bit of a break too, as he's always underestimating his cords.

Geno

I love to split wood with a maul. I have had this Monster Maul since 1983. It is a beast, weighs 14 pounds.
I thought you could never top the Monster Maul but I had this Fiskars highly recommended two years ago, and I must say it is a damn good maul.

If a piece of wood wants to give me a hard time, I also have a Wood Grenade, and a German made Ochsenkopf aluminum splitting wedge, and a 10 pound hammer.

I never heard of the term “ rick” before. I’d say a 1/3 of a cord would be accurate.

Who's Rick ???

My experience is that a cord of rounds usually equates to about two ricks.

That's probably about 3.5 billy bobs then?

Maybe a full half dozen melindas.

Geno

He owns this site,

makes money off folks following inane posts I hear.

I'm trying to get hired on like wabi and gus.

Or slummy, but he's just a paid troll.

Geno

I
Load my 8' bed pretty full, stacked.
To the top of the cab for three tiers a bit less for the last full one.
That leaves about a foot for saws and such, wood piled around them.


When I have carefully stacked it to get a fair measure, curous.

About 75% of a cord.

A friend that doesn't haul far stacks a full tier on the tailgate.
I believe he might actually get a full cord

I think it's a really old term of wood measurement....when I was a kid the old guys talked wood in cords and ricks...not sure myself the actual measurements but I think there is an official measure..I really doesn't matter to me as I cut all my own and don't sell any...my wood is measured by the load I guess..

It's amazing to me how many dont know the measurements for a cord / Rick of wood . Anyone ed who says th hey can stack ac cord of wood in a pickup bed is a lying mofo

I know I can stack a third cord of mill ends in an '84 Subaru wagon with the back seats folded down. I measured the cubic footage. And had lots of mill ends to bring home. Set that thing right on the axle bumpers it did, but only a coupla mile drive home from the mill.

Geno

A cord should look like this.

I love my job

Nice work there 673.

What kind of wood, pine? Fir? Larch?

Looks like about a cord to me too.

If you sell that, what are you getting for it up there if I might ask?

Geno

Yes its fir, this wood is too large to be putting through the splitter so its split by hand. When the snow gets deep a woodcutter is limited to where he can access the bush, so in this case the wood is pretty big, normally its smaller and I run it through my splitter.
I get 250 a cord, and its measured....I have two 1 ton 4x4's the other truck has a 10'x2'x7' wide box (dumping) so I always get over a cord on each truck.
I love my competition, I love the ones who show up with the wood just thrown in and they say....its a cord....or they start high at the front of the truck and it tapers down at the back, lol, its mostly repeat business. Its really hard work and after 40 years on and off being a woodcutter I will retire being one, somebody's gotta do it

Firewood in a pile always looks a lot bigger then it will when its stacked.