Starting another thread on this cuz it's kind of unique. An old gent just stopped by as I was loading my truck to deliver. Couldn't afford a cord, couldn't afford a half cord. Asked how much for 1/4th of my truckbed? I had no clue. He then said how much for 100 sticks? I pondered a few seconds and he finally said he would just stop by another time after I figure it out. I had asked him "How much is it worth to you" just to help him out but he was clueless as me. LOL, how many sticks in a cord? I guess I could come up with an equitable deal to just help him out. Another guy just stopped by, wanted $20 worth, lol. I just told him get what he feels is fair. Anyone have an idea how much 'sticks' in a cord? Of course, size of 'sticks' varies, so, it's rather ambiguous. EDIT: Somebody on here had a number recently. My pieces are 16". I guess I could count pieces in a face cord and price it from that.
Well, if you had a cord, you could count them, then you'd know how many sticks in your cord. There are, however, four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire.
Pretty sure I counted a few years ago, but no longer remember. You could do the same from a stack and get pretty close. Write it down though so you don't forget. I could count 10 different stacks and get 10 different numbers, even though I'm fairly consistent on split size.
Base your price on what you sell a cord for and add say $5 for lesser amounts. I get a lot of "trunkload" buyers . That is usually about $20 unless it is a 1974 Chevy caprice then it's more $. When I had my farm market I had an old grocery cart that would hold about 40 or so average splits for campfire wood. Got $20 for it and I was always filling it up. If you can make say a couple 1/8 cord stacks and a 1/4 cord stacks to have ready you won't have to worry about guessing if you gave them to much for what you charge. I sell almost all my wood in 1/4 cord bins. No delivery/customer hauls.
I googled it awhile back and I think it was around 240 for a face cord . So about 720 in full cord. 4in×4in×16in splits would come out to 865. Thats with no gaps anywhere.
My math might be wrong but I gave it a shot. 1 piece 4”x8”x16”=.29 cubic feet 1 cord 4’x4’x8’= 128 cubic feet Approx 441 pieces this size in a cord but wouldn’t have any spaces in stack for this many. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. Yup!
Funny you ask that, i'd ask my wife, since she's the ''expert''. Here's why, the local tire store had a contest, guess the amount of pieces of wood in a measured cord. They had it stacked inside the store. This community we live in is in the PNW and lives on logging and mill's. So, needless to say, all the loggers, were down there putting their guess board, with their name on it with a magic marker. . There were lots of them young guys, older guys, owners of logging companies, you name it, they were putting in their guess. So, my wife watched, and was thinking, too much, not enough, not enough, then she looked the whole board over and thought, ok, i'll add one more to this particular guess. Put it on the board, with her name. They had a deadline on how long they left it open, it was like a week. OH YEAH, she WON a brand new Stihl 026!! Yeah, baby!!!! I've still got that 026, plus several other saws, but none mean as much to me, as that one. Oh, YUP, SHE'S a winner too 52 years this last sept. Back to the question, shoot, i don't have a clue, lol.
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I actually kept count in my head when I was stacking a cord I got delivered. It was somewhere between 400-500 pieces and some were a little big so I split em smaller and ended up around 600. So with all the variables of split size I would say anywhere from 400-600 with average length of 16”
I stack my half cord sized racks tight with splits and have counted 400 or so in them. Again this is my "jigsaw puzzle" stacking. 16" long splits. The rack pictured is 10'x4'10" inside dimensions stacked with straight grained red oak. Pic from May. YMMV
I have counted many cords as I’ve thrown them on to my dump truck. Why would I do this you ask? My truck holds two cords. If I’m delivering 1 cord to two different houses I will count as I load and then pull off half at the first house. My pieces are 16” long and my splits are a little on the small size but it’s usually around 650-700. I’ve also done this when I’ve had 4 people all want a half cord. Saves me a bunch of driving time. As for smaller amounts I think of a pickup with an 8’ bed holding a half a cord when stacked up even with the rail. At 16”, 6 rows of wood fits tightly so 1 row equals 1/12 of a cord. Figure out your math from there but if someone wants to pick up small amounts I tell them $30 a row.
