by Feller on January 4th, 2008

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How many peices of wood do you call 1 cord of wood?

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by Galeanda on January 5th, 2008
There are two different kinds of cords, one is a full cord and the other is called a face cord. Neither of them are measured by how many logs. it is by how big a stack it makes.

A full cord is a large amount of wood. It measures 4 feet high by 4 feet wide by eight feet long (4' x 4' x 8') and has a volume of 128 cubic feet.

A face cord or rick of wood is four feet high by eight feet long and is as wide as the individual firewood pieces, but averages 16 inches wide. A 16-inch wide face cord is equal to one-third of a full cord.

Two full-size pick-up truck loads (8 foot box) equals one full cord, whether the wood is stacked carefully so it is about level with the truck box sides, or is thrown into the truck box with the top of the pile about as high as the cab.

Four compact pick-up truck loads (6 foot box) equals one full cord of wood, whether the wood is stacked carefully so it is about level with the truck box sides, or is thrown into the truck box with the top of the pile about as high as the cab.
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by Jenn really misses her boy on January 4th, 2008
I don't know how many pieces it would be, but it's generally a stack 4 feet tall by 4 feet deep by 8 feet long.
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  by Feller on January 4th, 2008
- No problem....we have an outdoor wood furnace, and we go through lots of cords of wood each year!
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- What name brand furnace do you have?are you happy with it
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  by Feller on January 4th, 2008
- I think it's Heatmor. It's cold and wet outside, so I'm not going to look! lol We love it. We haven't had to purchase propane since before last winter, and we're still at 85%! We also have our water heater on it, so we only use propane to heat our water in the summer. We have about 15 acres of woods with plenty of dead trees, so we don't have to purchase wood, either. We do have a very large one. Most outdoor furnaces I see are tiny, ours is like a big shed. We can fit 4' long logs into it, and my 15 year old son climed into it to clean it last spring, so it's pretty huge. We're also going to heat our barn with it, when we get the barn built. It has probably already paid for itself!
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  by Jenn really misses her boy on January 5th, 2008
- We had a Heatmor briefly LOL! But we never installed it. We are building our house and realized that we would have to install both kinds of heating systems if we ever wanted to leave our house in the winter and not have things freeze on us. Since we couldn't afford to pay for both we chose to go the propane way for now. I'm so sorry we couldn't have both. But we still heat with wood via our Vermont Castings wood stove which does a great job of heating the whole house. But of course our radiant floors don't get used very often. Oh well, maybe one day:-)
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  by Galeanda on January 5th, 2008
- Luckily we purchased a home that was already here...it would definately be expensive to install a furnace AND an ourdoor wood furnace! At least my hubby was able to install the heat exchanger and all that himself, we only had to have some electrical done by the installers, so we saved a lot there.
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  by Jenn really misses her boy on January 5th, 2008
- My husband and I are the only ones working on our house. We've spent the last 3 years building it ourselves and done just about every part of it except build the cabinets in the kitchen (We've done that once and I didn't want to so that again!) I was so sad that we had to sell the Heatmor. We did a lot of research and picked just that one and looked forward to using it. But sometimes you have to pick your must haves and can affords and they don't always meet! LOL!
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  by Galeanda on January 5th, 2008
- Good for you for doing this all yourselves! My hubby works so much, usually 7 days a week and is often out of town, so it's difficult for him to do much besides fill the furnace when he gets home! And with the housing market in MI so bad, we didn't get what we could've gotten a few years earlier for our former home. And we really had to move when we did because we were right outside Detroit and the area was getting really bad to raise kids. So, we're happy with our 20 acres (first time the hubby has lived in the country!) and our fixer-upper that we haven't been able to do much with yet! lol
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  by Jenn really misses her boy on January 5th, 2008
- We took a different route. We left CA and got quite a bit for our acreage and bought cheap here in NY. So we've been living on our savings though the time has come to get back to "real life" as those savings have dwindled and we're looking for work. Hopefully we can still do the finishing stuff as we go. I'm so glad you got to move to the country. It's so much better with room to breathe and live:-)
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  by Galeanda on January 5th, 2008
- Ah, most of our savings are gone buying this place with a much higher house payment than we had. And my hubby works for Chryser and has almost 22 years in, and we can't go too far until he retires, so we didn't have a whole lot of choices! But, we're very happy here for now. We hope to retire to Montana! He has a buddy from work who just retired and is looking at property in upstate New York!
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  by Jenn really misses her boy on January 5th, 2008
- Land is cheap in New York but surprise! It's going up as people want to lave the city and have a little (read GIANT LODGE! LOL!) place in the country for weekends:-) We wee able to buy a piece of property from my husband's sister and BIL. And we picked a part of their land that is right next to the state woods with a large pond. It's such a change from central coast of CA. lol!
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  by Galeanda on January 5th, 2008
- Oh yeah, from no seasons to BIG winter! That's definately a change! lol
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by snnoopy on October 7th, 2009
I've never seen fire wood cut into perfect sizes so you have to understand that there is a lot of air between the pieces after being stacked, which is not a bad thing when you consider you want air to circulate. However, a cord by definition is 128 cubic feet regardless of the dimensions. The pieces might be cut 20 inches long...never are they all the same length though. In any case a rough estimate will be 4x4x8 feet respectively with a little left over to compensate for air. Most people will deliver a little more than they should just to make sure the customer is happy.
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by davott on January 6th, 2009
Everyone should know by now that a cord is 128 cubic feet. If we can assume that split firewood is 18" long, 6" wide, and 4" thick (approximately 1/4 cubic foot), then we have 4 x 128 = 512 pieces of wood in a cord.

Now, don't hold my feet to your fire. Measure your own typical log, and do the arithmatic. I'll bet I'm close enough.
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by JustCurious on January 4th, 2008
I think it goes more by dimension of the stack than the number of pieces.
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by THE FOX on December 6th, 2009
ONE CORD= 4 FEET HIGH, 8 FEET LONG, 4 FEET WIDE.
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