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Well that’s all for now! Staying home for weeks

Discussion in 'The Wood Market' started by Dstrick, Mar 26, 2020.

  1. Dstrick

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    I sold 17 cord in the last 6 weeks. I’m down to one cord of seasoned big leaf maple. But I’m in a state that is shutdown. But that’s enough wood sales for now anyway. I’m more concerned with getting more wood home to get split and seasoned for market in the fall. I sure wish I was sitting on 20 cord of logs I could get split over the next several weeks while we’ve been ordered to hole up in our houses. Darn the timing of pandemics. 08D0CE23-D5C0-41F2-8E6D-A63FC748C1B2.jpeg
     
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    That's one nice wood shed. How much to build...how many cords ?
    BTW: where does that cord go to ?
     
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    Thanks man! I estimate it was around $4,999. Each bay holds about 6.5 cord. I could probably get 20 cord under it. One bay is for us and not for sale. I will pull from one side or the other year after year to eventually get mostly two year wood.
     
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    Now ordered to shelter in place until May 4th.
     
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    Not real, full 4x4x8 cords ?
     
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    Yes. Per bay.
    Each bay holds 135w x 142d x 75h = 6.5 cord times 3 bays plus one cord on each end as option. At the moment it has 8.5 cord and a tractor under it.
     
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    No way a full cord @ 128 cu ft. 6 1/2/ cords in each bay !!!
    Am I smoking something funny ?
     
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    I am wrong.
     
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    And then you did the calcs! You couldn’t know by just looking at a tiny pic of it. It’s basically eight posts 12’ on center.
     
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    It took hours on my sliderule.
     
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    Any challenged "elders" recall a sliderule ? Still have my trusted K&E.
    If we could download the app for Flash, you could see it.
    Anyone ?
    That's pre auto Google or calculators.....the stoneage. Not that long ago that the artillery guys were using sliderules for calcs.
     
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    It broke my abacus
     
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    Dstrick Would you please define your numbers in this post. If I see them as being in 'feet', you would have (135X142X75)/128=11,232.42cords. I don't think you have that much wood in that pic.
     
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    I can use a slide rule and/or a counting frame/abacus, but why would I when I have an easy to use calculator on my phone, laptop, desktop and even my watch ?
     
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    11.25 x 11.83 x 6.25
    I get 6.498 cord if I make the wild and crazy assumption that the numbers in parenthesis are in inches - like you would see if you used a long wind up tape rule.
     
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    Heh.. A 75ft tall woodshed.
    :faint:
     
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    Dear Bill:
    If you have to ask then .........................
     
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