A guy I know was telling me a neighbor of his was selling split firewood. He ended up giving his neighbor my cell # because I was interested in getting a cord or 2 for this winter. Anyway the guy calls me up and tells me he doesn't sell by the cord, it's $250 a pick up truck load! That's probably what? 1/2 a cord most likely?
Firewood sales are regulated (or so we think) like any other measured retail item. That guys needs to show how much wood a 'pickup truck' will hold in order for the consumer to know what portion of a cord they are buying. So many schisters out there.
I measured the bed of my lil Ford Ranger. Exactly 1/3 cord fitted & stacked, flush with the gunwales. It has managed 1/2+ cord of mixed freshly cut black birch & white oak. Less than 10 mi. & no rush. Clearly, the capacity depends on the truck and how it's loaded.
The only way to get a cord on a truck is to have sideracks that go to the top of the cab, tightly stack and have virtually no taper till the tailgate. Most trucks will run out of springs way before this.
my truck is almost always out of spring before I head home,,,aint that what bump stops are for??LOl...
My firewood guy has an 8ft bed dually truck and he stacks/tosses the wood in up about a foot over the rail and when I get two of those it stacks up to a cord or close enough and he only charges $50-65 a load delivered. I think this guy your talking to is a rip off.
If somebody is stupid enough to bite on that one, I'm sure he's smart enough to sell it to them.As W.C. Fields once said "Thars a sucker born every minute".....................
