Never seen one of these terms before. Maybe it's just me. Anybody else? It was Facebook market place. The rest of it seems pretty legit. I don't see many guys mention moisture meters, so kudos on that. Feel like he's shorting himself, but if its cut to 16-18" getting 2' wide is going to be some fancy stacking.
<ensure> dryness I suppose one could insure dryness, but that would cost extra never heard of a face rick, but it's a big country full of diversity I have no idea what a rick is, but i've heard the term used often so it must have some relevancy somewhere.
Always thought face cord, rick, rank…were all the same. So many different terminologies from different cultures
Yea I have heard those. Guy seems way more legit than most telling you what he is selling and what his defined measure of such is. And is stacking it (even if sloppy) so you both should agree on the cord you bought is what you received before you hand over the money. If there no state laws saying what term it has to be sold by and the measure of such you call call it whatever you want and define those terms and it's just as legit as anything else.
Around here a face cord is 1/3 of a cord and a rick is 1/2. I won't use these terms when selling. Fractions of a cord only. Carry a tape measure and calculator if you can't do the math in your head. 128 cubic feet tightly stacked is what it is.
I grew up in Oklahoma and had only heard the term “rick”. It wasn’t until I moved to Wisconsin that I started to think in terms of “cord/face cord”. But now being familiar with both ricks and cords, I can tell you that the guys selling ricks were actually selling face cords. They wanted to sell you a 4x8 stack but nobody cut their logs to 24” length. People need to think strictly in terms of cubic feet.
The amount of bucked, unsplit and assured “seasoned” wood I’ve seen on FB Marketplace is rather disturbing.
It's really dependent on where you live and what a season of burning might consume on average. Up north cords are king (and mandatory by law in at least one state), down south face cords might get you through a season of heating, , and those are usually referred to as a Rick, roughly 1/3 cord depending on cut length.
