I found this leaflet while out and about for buying firewood, it was made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
So true fellow Farmer. I had a lady stop today inquiring about firewood. I told her that is was not ready to burn and I would not sell it to her. She insisted and I politely told her no.
Well put farmer rob !!! I just went through this about 4 - 6 weeks ago! I am still pretty green but found I had a lot more knowledge about wood then a lot of the people selling it, only because I've been educated by the best. FHC University that is Really nice that they have a leaflet to educate folks!
I recently saw somewhere that the only legal measurement for firewood sales in Ohio is cord. The last load I bought was sold as 3 to 3 1/2 cords. I have 1/2 of it stacked and it looks like I will have a little over 3 cords. I would also be ok by the truck load. If told 4x 8 bed, 4x6 bed, dump truck load and how high is it stacked? At least I know what to expect. Rick and face cord I don't know what I am suppose to get. From being on here I know what we say is a face cord. Edited: Great information pamphlet.
Firewood dealers in Maine must sell only by the cord by law, and I haven’t been cheated yet from any I’ve bought from. It’s not something I’ve heard of since the law was passed some years ago. Before that it was anyone’s guess. But none of them still knows what dry wood is.
Marshel54 go to resources, click on grizzly Adam cord calculator, put in size of pile or size of truck, helped me.
Scaling is a whole world unto its own, and there are few that understand it. It is all about give and take. We move a lot of firewood, and I have had loads go out where I swear they could not have stuffed another tree onto the truck..."9 cords they say", but then on the next load it is not quite up to the top of the stakes and they smile and say, "9 cords." See, it all balances out in the end. We have people we haul wood for that get mad because they cut some nice Yellow Birch log or something, then later see a Yellow Birch log in our log yard and think, "that is my log, they are stealing my wood", and so they get other truckers to haul the wood. But it is silliness on their part. Trust me, we are not going to load a truck, drive to out log yard, unload one nice veneer log, load the truck back up, and then go to another log yard just to make an extra $150. it is just not going to happen. Its going on the truck and going straight to the log yard because fussing with it would cost more money then what we would get trying to steal it! But after they get screwed royally by others, they eventually come back. We had one scaler we went to that deliberately scaled up logs coming from private landowners, but scaled down the logs coming from paper company land. It was not an obnoxious amount, but he was kicking a bone to the landowner. The thing was he was doing it all in his head so no one could track what he was doing, but they do not make scalers like that anymore. This same scaler told me that he could remember the lengths and diameters of 4 logs, but not 5. Whenever I unloaded logs for him to scale, he never got more then 4 logs in the grapple. When you make their life easier, they appreciate it. Suddenly a log does not have quite so much sweep to it, or they will take a bunch of short logs. It is all subjective, so a cord is never a cord, is a cord, is a cord. Every cord is different.
I have been there Kyle. That is why I do not have a problem with a pick up load, but I am going to ask. 8' or 6' bed? Level stacked or just thrown on? Most people would probably not ask. I kind of figure a full sized pick up bed at 8x4x2 less the wheel wells. Level stacked a little under 64 cubes or about a 1/2 a cord.
