Cord + Weight Calculator

Been working on a website for myself and got sidetracked into building a Cord calculator, figured some of you guys might find it useful, at least I hope so. Love to hear any feedback on it as well.

Cord Calculator

 

I’ll check it out next time I need one. Looks great.
I just entered some random measurements and it didn’t tell me how many cords, just “custom size”.




Be good to have actual cordage, like this:

 

Yep, can do. It recognizes Face or Rick cords and a regular cord so when it outputs cordage I will probably have it output amount in both. Could be fun to have it output total BTU as well.

 

Maybe width should be length?

Not sure why one needs to enter 2 width measurements.

 

Resources | Firewood Hoarders Club

Firewood & Cord Calcuations

 

Maybe he was trying to avoid having two length measurements by having one a length and one a width. .


Coding must be so much fun. Former miner ?

 

Made some improvements:

- Field placeholders changed (more intuitive)
- Theme changes
- Mobile improvements
- Now outputs total cordage in face cord and cord
- Changed field naming
- Warning added about weight in output


In Progress
- BTU estimate

Thanks for trying it and the feedback!

 

We have a similar calculator here in the resources section.

Welcome to the FHC Nord

 

Thanks for the welcome!

Yes, I saw the calc here the other day, after I had already started my journey down the rabbit hole lol.

 

Improvements are nice Nord, well done. I'll save it in my favs.

 

Thanks, happy to hear you like them!

 

I think I am pretty much done with it now, with exception of adding a few more wood types. I improved output formatting, added aliases such as "Bush Cord" for Cord. Also added BTU equivalents for electrical and heating oil, and some fun random firewood facts.

 

Nice job.

 

Thanks!

I enjoyed building that, so I am going to make another, but for tree volume. Will be able to give a rough estimate of how much cordage, weight, etc in a single tree, a pile, or even on a piece of land.

 

What type wood was that calculation for? Heavy stuff
I did one for Black Locust.

 

I believe it was Hickory, very heavy!

 

Welcome to the club. Lots of great folks here sharing knowledge and humor.

I like it, well done, sir.
I used it on 1 row in the shed, 5' w x 8' high x 18" l, hickory.
Looks like Miz Carol and I will be warm, 8.8m BTU's/ row, got 6 rows so far, shed holds 9 rows. Other side of shed will be white oak...

 

Thanks for the welcome and glad you like the calculator!

Between hickory and white oak I would say you guys will be toasty this winter.

 

Did some updates.

- Added energy equivalents of propane and natural gas.
- Removed need for .html in URL
- Few mobile version fixes
- Calculator now lives at: Firewood Calculator – Accurate Cord Volume & Weight Measurement
- All requests to the old URL are redirected to the above
- Added social cards data and image
- Added breadcrumbs
- Added tooltip to Wood Condition

 

I would like to expand the wood type list. Any types you guys would like to see added?