It's at 6 o'clock. It's my favorite time of day, in my favorite place to be, doing my favorite thing to do, and it's the best place to hit a big round. Nice straight grained red maple - my favorite wood to split! Had to strike a line in this one on account of that knot, but one good hit at 6 o'clock is all it took for most rounds this size. Got the first batch split up - about a NY face cord. The rest of my maple rounds are over here near the west side of the garage, which is convenient because that's where I'm stacking it. I'm tempted to split the rest of them up right here, but I don't want to make another mess on the lawn. I had an idea for a little pseudo-scientific test. Not to settle any debates, just for my own firewood hoarding amusement. I've heard differing opinions on whether there's more air space in a stack of rounds vs splits. My trailer is 4 feet wide, and I can fit 4 rows of 16" splits, so when it's stacked about 2' high, I know that's about a NY face cord. I'll load up with rounds, about 2 high, split em, and then stack it back in the trailer. I'll just take some before and after pics and see which load looks bigger.
That was a lot of 6 o'clock favorites going on, all at the same time. Doesn't get any better than that. Enjoy your sweet spot this eve at 6
I agree and spent 6 o'clock the same way yesterday. Except it was sweet gum so I didn't get near as much put up as you did. But still well more than a days worth so I'm getting ahead.
hey shawn, we're geographically close, I know what a Vermont face cord is, a (128 sq. feet) cord of wood single row stacked, I started that as a joke, cause someone asked if the 11 chord I used were full or face chords, I assume by the lakes in western New York, a normal face cord is about a week of wood in January! so the question is what's a New York face cord?
If you buy a "cord" around here, you're getting a "face cord" aka "rick". A 4x8 stack, 1 row deep - with 16" avg splits it works out to roughly 1/3 cord. When people around here ask me how much I have, and I tell them the total in "real cords", I have to explain what one is. So, nothing special about the NY variety - I simply named it that way in tribute to my regional dialect.
OK my region that's called a "run", three runs in a cord. I get it, fits easy in back of pickup. I deal a lot with sugarmakers, and gramps in depression and WWI I, with rationing saved sugar for cake frosting, everything else in old recipes had a maple syrup equivalent and grade really neat to see them. gramps and his brothers used to put up 35 cord for house and 15 cord for sugar shack. no gas or hydraulic help! better man then me! if I have to buy wood my loggers charge 210 cord delivered 3 cord minimum usually stacks out to 3.5 cord they give a little extra for repeat customers.
Sad to say, that seems to be the case all over. Around here if you say cord (not chord), they simply mean a rick but they don't even know what a rick is....:stacke:
If someone's gonna try to sell me a "face cord" measuring 4' high by 8' long, the pieces all better be 4' long too. A cord is a cord is a cord, 128 cubic feet, and everything else is BS.
I agree - but I guess you get away with it here, because nobody even remembers what a full cord is anyway! "Cord" or "face cord" here are both understood as 4x8, single row. But it's also understood that you're being "shorted" if the splits aren't 16". Lucky for me, I grow my own.
