OK you two, I'm going to chime in on this one. Having cut, split, delivered and stacked about a thousand "Face Cords" I would like to give you some of the nomenclature I learned from my elder clients way back when, that I grew up with. A "Face Cord" was originally simply a cutting across the "Face" or ends of a "Full Cord". A "Full Cord" was a pile of 8 foot long logs that were "Tightly stacked" 4 feet wide by 4 feet tall. So the early term "Face Cord" was a stack 4 feet wide by 4 feet tall one stick deep. Some of my customers referred to the term "Rick" of wood, or "Stove Cord". That was a smaller quantity, because the sticks were about 1 foot long, easier to poke into a wood cooking stove, and generally stacked inside the house, near the kitchen cooking stove. My elder clients said the term "Rick" got lost as wood burning cooking stoves became scarce and "Rick" got merged into "Face cord", which then morphed into 8 feet wide, 4 feet tall and one stick deep sticks anywhere from12 to 16 inches long. If the "Full Cord" was cut into 16 inch long pieces, you end up with 3 "Face Cords". If you cut a "Full Cord" into 12 inch pieces you end up with 4 "Stove Cords or "Ricks". But, nowadays the "Rick" and the "Face Cord" are often considered the same thing, but if you find someone from "befor" they will say no, it was a little bigger than the early face cord but smaller than today's face cord. The term "Tightly stacked" was determined by the saying: "Stacked close enough that a mouse can fit through between the logs but a cat can't follow." That leaves quite a lot of room for conjecture, but back in those days most customers kept the sellers honest by requiring "extra." Kind of like a baker's dozen. So, often sellers would err on the side of too much rather than too little to preserve the relationship between buyer and seller. Now, sneaking green or punk into the mix is a whole nother story which I will skip for now. Thank you both for a fun video. I am so glad you included the bloopers, showing that it's not all work work work. Bye for now. ben/ michigan
Quite true, sir. Most old terms died as the need diminished, and the users passed on. No need to stack anything with gas, fuel oil or electric heating the norm. My father's parents were city folks, so wood burning was phased out in the 30s in favor of coal burners, then converted to gas or oil later. Ducted to the first floor and gravity fed to the upper or attic with pass thru grates. Also used to spy on the adults from our play area upstairs. The cabins always had wood stoves, but were cooking units more than heat. Only vacation and hunting use and sold before I was old enough to buy them.
Wood is still sold by the rick where I'm at in the mid-south...I've never heard the term "face chord" used in this area, but do remember it from NY and PA.
That cute scene at 4:00 should be put on those looping short videos that look vertical or photo instead of landscape.. That was great, I can't stop looping it.
My wife loves stacking the wood when she has time. I have not purchased many cords of fire wood. Most the wood we have used i have cut and split myself. Been doing my own wood for 45 years. Now I am talking like an old person. Like your channel and thanks.
Them bloopers at the end was priceless girls ,,Judah helping his sisters stack that much wood ,,gives him a free pass to go along on the next date each sister gets ha ha ha lol
Thanks for helping to educate people who buy firewood. On the rare occasion I have had to buy firewood, when I call to inquire about wood from a vendor I don’t know, I always ask what they are using to deliver their “full cord” of firewood. If they say a pickup truck, unless it’s at least a 1 ton with an 8 foot box with side rails, I hang up the phone. Too many people get ripped off by scammers claiming to deliver a full cord in a pickup box.
I don't know? The only commercial seller in our neck of the woods brings an F250 w/8ft bed and (cab high) side rails.that's full to the top of of the rails. Never stacks up to a full chord.
Cut, split, and stack my own. Never really used a splitter though. Always did it by hand since I was a kid in the 90's. I work for the local branch of a major North American tree service now. When I need wood I just go out to the dump pile at the shop and load a couple of truckloads up. Sometimes I have to ask the guys to save me some good stuff on a job. Big fan of a black cherry, white ash, white, and red oak blend.
Hey we got Stereo! Great Job Ladies, Boss man you have a great bunch of hardworking family yourself included. Loved the "Bloopers" To all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. John Toccoa GA
A quick lesson - I lived a state that REQUIRED wood to be priced by the cord or fraction (no "face cords"), so here's the shortcut for "truckloads): A cord is 128 cubic feet. A 6.5 ft bed (short bed) F150/F250 pickup will hold 1/2 cord if the wood is stacked to the top of the bed. A full cord needs to be stacked twice as high as the bed (20-24 inches above the bed rail)) A long-bed surprisingly doesn't hold much more - 0.6 cords if stacked to the top of the bed. A full cord needs to be 18 inches above the rails. So those guys selling you a "truckload" need to be pricing at less than full cord prices or have cargo sides on their truck. A 4x8 trailer with 4ft sides is the perfect delivery vehicle.
I learned something, growing up on a ranch in central Arizona, we have never had to order a Cord of wood, we have a fireplace but rarely use it for heating.
I heated exclusively with wood for over twenty years on my first ranch and then for another 14 years on my second ranch. I cut split and stacked my own wood for the majority of that time and always maintained that if I could somehow save all the BTU's that I expended making that firewood and then used it to heat my house, I could cut half as much.
In that sense you can think of cutting wood as filling up a battery. There is energy loss to moving electricity from a source into another source. But with the battery you can use it whenever you need it.
I like stacking my own. Over the years I've been "shorted" many times. Before burning 1 piece of wood, I verify quantity. I agree "go easy on your vender" but 15 to 20% shortage is unacceptable (and costley). There are many rip offs. Most people don't know how to calculate a cord. Good information, thanks!
I've been heating with wood for 40+ years. When I was starting out, had log loads delivered, cut them up and rented a splitter for the weekend, a family affair. Past 20+ years just buy it cut, split, delivered. Takes me all summer to get it stacked along with other chores. Running a wood furnace in the basement past 15 years, usually go through 6- 6 1/2 cords a season. Massive flooding here in Vermont in July has put everyone behind, still have about 1 1/2 cords to stack. At 75, can't do as much in a day as I used to. Enjoy your videos! 🙂
Hello fella Vermonter I was born and raised in ludlow I now live in Georgia where a cord would last all winter and to be honest that’s just burning it in the fire place on holidays and chilly nights for aesthetics stay warm sir
Weights and measures in many states regulate firewood sales. 128 cubic ft of wood is a cord. That is supposed to be actual wood, as if it was one solid chunk. So a real cord should measure more then the standard 4x4x8. The stack should take into account the space between pieces. The larger the pieces, the more space. Smaller or thinner pieces can be packed tighter.
Hi Yall, love the bloopers. lol I buy my firewood. I call him every September and place my order for two cords. He has a dump bed on his delivery truck and brings one chord at a time. I never worry about it being a few sticks over or under. I just stack it in my woodshed and wait for the cold weather. Thanks for the info and fun video. Have a great weekend too.
Great job. The ends of your pile should be piled a little tighter maybe 3 prices a row cuz there's lots of air space in-between them. You get some old timers their piles were straight and tight. Other than that looks good
I had three cords delivered a week ago. The guy had a trailer that dumped it all out in a big heap. It was a little rough getting to my house even in four-wheel drive, but he made it.... And then I had the "pleasure" of stacking it all in a shed and on the porch and patio to make sure it stays dry!
Hi girls! I grew up in southern Quebec 15 miles from the USA border on the edge of the Appalachians, Vermont and New Hampshire close by. Woods here much like yours, lots of poplar, birch (white,black,yellow,paper),beech, oak, ironwood, and many,many varieties of maple. Lots of hemlock, different spruces, balsam fir, larch and cedar on well-drained land. All this only to tell you that your ‘face-cord’ is called a ‘run’ on this side of the border, one third of a 4x4x8 foot cord. All hardwood of course, and no poplar!
Great video, but that's not a cord. Where you crisscrossed the ends, that creates a lot of air space. A good rule of thumb is, thrown into a trailer loose, 180 cubic feet will equal an honest cord when stacked for 16" split pieces. 190cf-18" and 200cf for 20" pieces. This is in some states Dept. of Weights and Measurements.
To be clear, it is not 128 cubic feet of wood, it is 128 cubic feet of stacked wood (which includes the space between the wood.) It's not like "board feet" which is an actual volume of wood.
Hey young ladies!! Great video Great to see Jayde getting over her shyness too the camera. Don’t be shy you’re beautiful girl!! Girls the the camera loves you both. Love the content! I’m stuck in a hospital with stroke systems. I might have to spend Christmas in here. The bloopers are fun. I’d love to visit your yard!!!!
Here in rural, fly over, Intermountain American West we purchase 16" split Almond or split Walnut delivered by flatbed hay hauler and forklift on standard 4 x 4 pallets tightly stacked 4 feet high. Each pallet is EXACTELY one half cord. No chucking, no stacking.
I'm up on the lakeshore in Erie County where firewood plays a big part in keeping folks warm in the harsh winter months.... I love watching these informative videos. You guys are the coolest. Keep up the good work !!
Your video's have gotten much better in recent months ... congratulations and thanks. I no longer burn wood but there was a day when I used it for heating and cooking and I always enjoyed the stacking process. When the kids were young I would stack the wood in single layer walls and form walking mazes which all the neighborhood kids loved. As the years passed I then progressed to assembling 4 walled structures out of stacked wood, covering it with a tarp like a roof, and having a fire pit in the middle. A great way to socialize outdoors in the winter and cook a couple of hotdogs in the Canadian Rockies. Cheers.
As a kid I really didn't appreciate stacking wood. Now as an adult seeing our woodshed stacked full of seasoned wood is very gratifying going into winter. Nice work on the video's. 👍
Hello you two dear ones, with us here in Germany is most of the bulk space meter that is calculated for a firewood delivery. 1•1•1m. When you process the firewood yourself, most of the time a space meter of the log is measured on the truck. For a complete truck delivery, it is between 38-40 room meters of log, more is not allowed because of the weight of the truck. I like both of you very much with the way you have. Keep up the good work, your parents can be very proud of you. Be blessed in Jesus' name 🙌😊👍🏽
New Hampshire only lets you sell by the cord or fraction of a cord. I cut some myself and by the rest. It gets dumped by a truck that can hold 3 cords. I get green in the fall, stack it for the next year, then bring it inside and stack it again. I burn about six cord a year. I don't have a gym membership.
Funny! Like stacking firewood. We measure our own wood for our own in solid cords... If we sell any its in face cords...aka city cords... That wood in your video is what we would call furnace wood size. Looks nice! 🇨🇦👍😁
Here in Maine, 1 cord of Firewood thrown is 180 cf. State law. The history of cord wood is this , 4ft. X 4ft. X 8ft in the round, not cut or split, 128 cu ft. A delivered 180 cf. will stack out around 110 cu ft.
Well done explaining ,rick,face cord and cord. I remember buying a pick up truck load with a bed that was 4&1/2’ wide , 3&1/2’ deep , and 8’ long. They called it a cord of wood. I think it was more like a rick. Emerald and Jade you are good honest people .
I’ve found that lots of firewood sellers (especially those who sell roadside) claim that their pickup bed of wood is a cord. It’s always tossed in the bed loosely and sometimes it’s only a 6’ bed. I haven’t seen any who actually deliver a full cord.
@@JT_70 Another commenter said that a cord of wood thrown randomly in a pile occupies 180 cu ft. I don't know where he cot that number, or if it's right ... but if that's accurate, then a 128 cu ft space filled with firewood thrown in vs stacked would be less than 3/4 of a cord.
We cut/split/stack our own firewood, and stack it along our house fence in long single-width rows . I get pallets and cut off one side to make skinny bases (two stringers with slats) to elevate the wood off the ground for provide airflow and limit moisture. We stack the wood about 5’ - 6’ high, Avery couple feet I include a 3’ branch that goes from the stack into the chain link fence behind to provide stability, and I also include a couple 4’ limbs lengthwise to tie the wall of wood together, because our dogs like to try to get to the mice nesting between the logs - the lateral and transverse stabilization is important to limit vet bills. Finally, I top the stack with pieces of old steel roof metal to keep the rain off. Those are secured with pieces of paracord run through the stack. Firewood is cut year-round, and we have a couple stacks around the fence line, and as the wood is consumed from one end of a stack it is replaced with fresh cut. By the time we get back to that point, it is seasoned two years.
In northern ontario. We call a 4x4x8 hole logs a bush cord. 16inchx 4x8 a face cord n 16inch x4x8 split a cord. I hate pilling. I split all my wood by hand around 5 bush cord n my kids pile. Long live the blaze king .❤
Cut wood for 50 years. Cut trees, hauled out of woods, unloaded trailer ( no stack), split, fed wood furnace. Cut approx 8-10 (4’X4’X8’) cords per season. My wood piles looked like the piles behind you. Plenty of work! Now converted to wood pellets in a pellet furnace. We burn approximately 5-6 Ton/year. I appreciate the 40 pounds now! That 50 years of hard labor for 6-8 weeks per year is probably the only reason that I made it to 76 years, so far!
My youth, my life, my love, Pennsylvania forests. ❤ The beauty, the smells, the sounds. No matter where you end up. These stay with you forever in a life time.
We always made our cords what we called a little heavy. Nothing to do with weight just an extra foot on the end so that it was just a bit over no matter what. We did in the past sell a rick but that is pretty well gone now with face cords. Excellent job ladies thank you.👍♥️♥️
When I was in rural Australia, the farm I was on used to sell firewood by the ton, which for the hardwood we were selling, was about a square metre of firewood per ton.
How was the wood weighed, what type of scale? I was thinking a scale can be made out of a large container put in water, and then checking it's depth in the water after the wood was placed in it.
Cut, split, and stack two cords this week...the trunk of the tree split out eight large pieces. Been doing the same thing year after year, that's what we do on our farm...
Despite the cold weather this time of year has its some special charm. The spruce and pine trees stand out especially among of leafless trees. That kind of firewood cord is exactly the one I like to use. And another firewood cord way I like to use is to lay down the chunks in one direction first and the next row in a perpendicular direction. The firewood in these piles is looking good, I sure it produces a lot of heat. I wonder why Jade laughed in the bloopers section🙂? Maybe there is no necessary for Jade to repeat Em' motions and it would be better to let Jade to act on her own. This is just my opinion. (Hi from Belarus. Harry Davidson).
I have been heating our home with a wood stove since 1982. It's about 1700 square feet and framed with 2x6 lumber instead of 2x4 lumber. It's a 1.5 story cape with an open floor plan so it's well suited to a wood stove. We use an Energy Harvester stove and it does the trick. We burn under 3 cords each year. I've got a wood shed that always has a two year supply of seasoned wood--seasoned 2 years stacked inside. I've had the same firewood supplier for quite a while now and he delivers one cord to us for three consecutive Saturdays. The firewood is stacked, not dumped, into the trailer and his price is extremely fair and reasonable. I'm 77 years old now and still move and stack the wood into the shed. Luckily, he can dump each load right in front of the shed opening so it's a matter of tossing the wood in and stacking it up. I stack each cord over a couple of days or so. It's good exercise! Over the years, I've cut numerous cords of wood from our 2.5 acre property. So I've saved a ton of money burning wood for heat for over 40 years. Once I got into my early to mid-60s, I began hiring a chimney sweep instead of going up on the roof myself. About 4 years ago, I had him install a stainless steel chimney liner as the mortar joints in the flue tiles were deteriorating from all the heat and gases going up the 4 flue chimney. There are two fireplace flues and one flue to the basement, in addition to the one for the wood stove. Our backup heat source is electric baseboard heat and that is much more expensive to rely on for winter heat. I'm looking into have mini-split ductless units installed as a future heat source. The electric baseboards would be the last resort with the wood stove still being the most economical method of heating but also the most labor intensive method. Our wood burning costs us under $700/year. Using electric baseboards would cost a bit over $5000/year, and Ductless Heat Pumps would cost about $1900/yr. So when stacking and hauling wood and filling the stove becomes untenable due to my age, etc, the heat pump system is the most attractive choice. We're out in the country so there are no natural gas lines around. Propane is also expensive. The heat pumps are extremely close in operating costs as to what a pellet stove would be. I love heating with wood and the stove is sized perfectly to the home. The first floor is nice and toasty and the bedrooms on the second floor are cooler for good sleeping. Lastly, I really do enjoy all the videos you produce. You both are members of a great family with lots of built-in supports. Keep doing what you are doing. It's educational and entertaining and it's nice seeing the business grow and develop. That's living the American Dream!
If you haven’t read the book, Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, it is a great resource for firewood users, presented in an informative, engaging, and humorous way.
Great Video But for me it is a trip to the back 40 drop and cut to stove length bring it in split and put in the woodshed Burn between 5-8 cord a season here in Maine nothing feels better than wood heat .
Jade speaks!!!! And films with a steady hand. Very beautiful.
Jade is loosening up just fine .i like the cute dancing jadelin. And that growl was unexpected too. Emerald get control of that girl 😅😂
OK you two, I'm going to chime in on this one. Having cut, split, delivered and stacked about a thousand "Face Cords" I would like to give you some of the nomenclature I learned from my elder clients way back when, that I grew up with. A "Face Cord" was originally simply a cutting across the "Face" or ends of a "Full Cord". A "Full Cord" was a pile of 8 foot long logs that were "Tightly stacked" 4 feet wide by 4 feet tall. So the early term "Face Cord" was a stack 4 feet wide by 4 feet tall one stick deep. Some of my customers referred to the term "Rick" of wood, or "Stove Cord". That was a smaller quantity, because the sticks were about 1 foot long, easier to poke into a wood cooking stove, and generally stacked inside the house, near the kitchen cooking stove. My elder clients said the term "Rick" got lost as wood burning cooking stoves became scarce and "Rick" got merged into "Face cord", which then morphed into 8 feet wide, 4 feet tall and one stick deep sticks anywhere from12 to 16 inches long. If the "Full Cord" was cut into 16 inch long pieces, you end up with 3 "Face Cords". If you cut a "Full Cord" into 12 inch pieces you end up with 4 "Stove Cords or "Ricks". But, nowadays the "Rick" and the "Face Cord" are often considered the same thing, but if you find someone from "befor" they will say no, it was a little bigger than the early face cord but smaller than today's face cord. The term "Tightly stacked" was determined by the saying: "Stacked close enough that a mouse can fit through between the logs but a cat can't follow." That leaves quite a lot of room for conjecture, but back in those days most customers kept the sellers honest by requiring "extra." Kind of like a baker's dozen. So, often sellers would err on the side of too much rather than too little to preserve the relationship between buyer and seller. Now, sneaking green or punk into the mix is a whole nother story which I will skip for now. Thank you both for a fun video. I am so glad you included the bloopers, showing that it's not all work work work. Bye for now. ben/ michigan
Quite true, sir. Most old terms died as the need diminished, and the users passed on. No need to stack anything with gas, fuel oil or electric heating the norm. My father's parents were city folks, so wood burning was phased out in the 30s in favor of coal burners, then converted to gas or oil later. Ducted to the first floor and gravity fed to the upper or attic with pass thru grates. Also used to spy on the adults from our play area upstairs. The cabins always had wood stoves, but were cooking units more than heat. Only vacation and hunting use and sold before I was old enough to buy them.
Wood is still sold by the rick where I'm at in the mid-south...I've never heard the term "face chord" used in this area, but do remember it from NY and PA.
All right old timer can you call me a porch?
I just pulled this one on the girls.
@ghammond3132 that's what they just said
Prêt à n'importe quel calcul louche pour éviter d'utiliser le système métrique avec un bon vieux mètre cube, c'est trop marrant ^^
So glad to see more of Jade in the video! I think it gives us a better view of her side of humor!
Well that was fun. Nice to see you both relaxed and laughing.
Time for the weekend. Thank you for the comment…Boss Man.
Thanks for the fun and informative video ladies and Judah. Have a great weekend! TTFN
Love the outtakes at the end. It put such a human touch to your videos.
You correct in your presentation
You girls are so beautiful with your slim, tall builds. I'm sure both of you could be models, easily.
Finally,,,,the bloopers
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Good Job Ladies, Emerald and Jade
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That cute scene at 4:00 should be put on those looping short videos that look vertical or photo instead of landscape.. That was great, I can't stop looping it.
My wife loves stacking the wood when she has time. I have not purchased many cords of fire wood. Most the wood we have used i have cut and split myself. Been doing my own wood for 45 years. Now I am talking like an old person. Like your channel and thanks.
I enjoy working firewood and I really enjoy your videos have a great weekend too
Great explanation and demo. The bloopers were awesome. 😂😂 stay warm and dry cold and wet weather us coming faster than we want.
Awesome job team, a good presentation and
Great to see all hands on deck!!
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Thanks for the comment. Have a good weekend…Boss Man.
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Them bloopers at the end was priceless girls ,,Judah helping his sisters stack that much wood ,,gives him a free pass to go along on the next date each sister gets ha ha ha lol
Very good information!
I’ve cut and stacked firewood most of my life , I enjoy cutting and splitting! Stacking is fun too , good workout !
Thanks for helping to educate people who buy firewood. On the rare occasion I have had to buy firewood, when I call to inquire about wood from a vendor I don’t know, I always ask what they are using to deliver their “full cord” of firewood. If they say a pickup truck, unless it’s at least a 1 ton with an 8 foot box with side rails, I hang up the phone. Too many people get ripped off by scammers claiming to deliver a full cord in a pickup box.
I don't know? The only commercial seller in our neck of the woods brings an F250 w/8ft bed and (cab high) side rails.that's full to the top of of the rails. Never stacks up to a full chord.
Love the double intro!
Here they call a long wheelbase pickup loaded a cord
Cut, split, and stack my own. Never really used a splitter though. Always did it by hand since I was a kid in the 90's. I work for the local branch of a major North American tree service now. When I need wood I just go out to the dump pile at the shop and load a couple of truckloads up. Sometimes I have to ask the guys to save me some good stuff on a job. Big fan of a black cherry, white ash, white, and red oak blend.
Love the bloopers! Jade is a riot!
Hey we got Stereo! Great Job Ladies, Boss man you have a great bunch of hardworking family yourself included. Loved the "Bloopers" To all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. John Toccoa GA
A quick lesson - I lived a state that REQUIRED wood to be priced by the cord or fraction (no "face cords"), so here's the shortcut for "truckloads):
A cord is 128 cubic feet.
A 6.5 ft bed (short bed) F150/F250 pickup will hold 1/2 cord if the wood is stacked to the top of the bed. A full cord needs to be stacked twice as high as the bed (20-24 inches above the bed rail))
A long-bed surprisingly doesn't hold much more - 0.6 cords if stacked to the top of the bed. A full cord needs to be 18 inches above the rails.
So those guys selling you a "truckload" need to be pricing at less than full cord prices or have cargo sides on their truck. A 4x8 trailer with 4ft sides is the perfect delivery vehicle.
fun fridays! Good to see you having fun (like always).
Love the Smiles 😊
I learned something, growing up on a ranch in central Arizona, we have never had to order a Cord of wood, we have a fireplace but rarely use it for heating.
Such beautiful women in this family
Enjoy listening to you and your sister.
I heated exclusively with wood for over twenty years on my first ranch and then for another 14 years on my second ranch. I cut split and stacked my own wood for the majority of that time and always maintained that if I could somehow save all the BTU's that I expended making that firewood and then used it to heat my house, I could cut half as much.
In Italy we say, with wood you heat twice! 😅
In that sense you can think of cutting wood as filling up a battery. There is energy loss to moving electricity from a source into another source. But with the battery you can use it whenever you need it.
I like stacking my own. Over the years I've been "shorted" many times. Before burning 1 piece of wood, I verify quantity. I agree "go easy on your vender" but 15 to 20% shortage is unacceptable (and costley). There are many rip offs.
Most people don't know how to calculate a cord. Good information, thanks!
I've been heating with wood for 40+ years. When I was starting out, had log loads delivered, cut them up and rented a splitter for the weekend, a family affair. Past 20+ years just buy it cut, split, delivered. Takes me all summer to get it stacked along with other chores. Running a wood furnace in the basement past 15 years, usually go through 6- 6 1/2 cords a season. Massive flooding here in Vermont in July has put everyone behind, still have about 1 1/2 cords to stack. At 75, can't do as much in a day as I used to. Enjoy your videos! 🙂
Hello fella Vermonter I was born and raised in ludlow I now live in Georgia where a cord would last all winter and to be honest that’s just burning it in the fire place on holidays and chilly nights for aesthetics stay warm sir
Weights and measures in many states regulate firewood sales. 128 cubic ft of wood is a cord. That is supposed to be actual wood, as if it was one solid chunk. So a real cord should measure more then the standard 4x4x8. The stack should take into account the space between pieces. The larger the pieces, the more space. Smaller or thinner pieces can be packed tighter.
Hi Yall, love the bloopers. lol I buy my firewood. I call him every September and place my order for two cords. He has a dump bed on his delivery truck and brings one chord at a time. I never worry about it being a few sticks over or under. I just stack it in my woodshed and wait for the cold weather. Thanks for the info and fun video. Have a great weekend too.
Outstanding sibling educational exercise. Thank you 👍🇺🇸🚜
You Ladies are a breath of fresh air.
Your all pros at stacking wood too.
Thank you for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless
Great job. The ends of your pile should be piled a little tighter maybe 3 prices a row cuz there's lots of air space in-between them. You get some old timers their piles were straight and tight. Other than that looks good
hey gal's thank's for adding thee hand jester's ...... yes I split stack mine and I'm 73 young ha ha only in my mind...zeke
What do you get when you chop firewood faster than you can stack it?
A backlog.
I had three cords delivered a week ago. The guy had a trailer that dumped it all out in a big heap. It was a little rough getting to my house even in four-wheel drive, but he made it.... And then I had the "pleasure" of stacking it all in a shed and on the porch and patio to make sure it stays dry!
Always great to see both of you in front of the camera 😊
Hi girls! I grew up in southern Quebec 15 miles from the USA border on the edge of the Appalachians, Vermont and New Hampshire close by. Woods here much like yours, lots of poplar, birch (white,black,yellow,paper),beech, oak, ironwood, and many,many varieties of maple. Lots of hemlock, different spruces, balsam fir, larch and cedar on well-drained land. All this only to tell you that your ‘face-cord’ is called a ‘run’ on this side of the border, one third of a 4x4x8 foot cord. All hardwood of course, and no poplar!
Professional, educational. So much more than 2 pretty faces. Good job ladies.
Great video, but that's not a cord. Where you crisscrossed the ends, that creates a lot of air space. A good rule of thumb is, thrown into a trailer loose, 180 cubic feet will equal an honest cord when stacked for 16" split pieces. 190cf-18" and 200cf for 20" pieces. This is in some states Dept. of Weights and Measurements.
Thanks I didn’t know, great info and insights. So beautiful and a lovely presentation ❤💜🩵❤️💛
A full cord of firewood is actually 128 cubic feet. So stacking it as tight as possible and minimizing air space is important.
The wood needs to be stacked lose enough for a mouse to go through but tight enough to stop the cat chasing it.
To be clear, it is not 128 cubic feet of wood, it is 128 cubic feet of stacked wood (which includes the space between the wood.) It's not like "board feet" which is an actual volume of wood.
Two loads in THAT load, sir...
128CF neatly stacked or 180 cubic feet thrown in trailer , or about 3 solid cubic m of wood or 5.09 cubic m thrown or 3.624 cubic m stacked
How very true!
Hey young ladies!!
Great video
Great to see Jayde getting over her shyness too the camera. Don’t be shy you’re beautiful girl!!
Girls the the camera loves you both.
Love the content!
I’m stuck in a hospital with stroke systems. I might have to spend Christmas in here.
The bloopers are fun.
I’d love to visit your yard!!!!
It is great to hear someone describe a cord vs a face cord.
VERY FUNNY 🤣Have a great weekend guys 📹👍☕️👌
You ladies are a hoot , a breath of fresh air on a gloomy day,another very good educational video .
Here in rural, fly over, Intermountain American West we purchase 16" split Almond or split Walnut delivered by flatbed hay hauler and forklift on standard 4 x 4 pallets tightly stacked 4 feet high.
Each pallet is EXACTELY one half cord. No chucking, no stacking.
I'm up on the lakeshore in Erie County where firewood plays a big part in keeping folks warm in the harsh winter months.... I love watching these informative videos. You guys are the coolest. Keep up the good work !!
Can see the Peninsula from my house.
Your video's have gotten much better in recent months ... congratulations and thanks.
I no longer burn wood but there was a day when I used it for heating and cooking and I always enjoyed the stacking process. When the kids were young I would stack the wood in single layer walls and form walking mazes which all the neighborhood kids loved. As the years passed I then progressed to assembling 4 walled structures out of stacked wood, covering it with a tarp like a roof, and having a fire pit in the middle. A great way to socialize outdoors in the winter and cook a couple of hotdogs in the Canadian Rockies. Cheers.
I really enjoyed the two sisters speaking in harmony!
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As a kid I really didn't appreciate stacking wood. Now as an adult seeing our woodshed stacked full of seasoned wood is very gratifying going into winter. Nice work on the video's. 👍
Hello you two dear ones, with us here in Germany is most of the bulk space meter that is calculated for a firewood delivery. 1•1•1m. When you process the firewood yourself, most of the time a space meter of the log is measured on the truck. For a complete truck delivery, it is between 38-40 room meters of log, more is not allowed because of the weight of the truck. I like both of you very much with the way you have. Keep up the good work, your parents can be very proud of you. Be blessed in Jesus' name 🙌😊👍🏽
New Hampshire only lets you sell by the cord or fraction of a cord. I cut some myself and by the rest. It gets dumped by a truck that can hold 3 cords. I get green in the fall, stack it for the next year, then bring it inside and stack it again. I burn about six cord a year. I don't have a gym membership.
Happy Thanksgiving folks. Carter.... Canada
Great demonstration guys and in the rain too. Love it 💕
Great one ladies!
GREAT JOB LADYS AS ALWAYS YOU KIDS ROCK GOD BLESS YA 😊😊😊😊😊😢😢😢
That was great! I’m always amazed that most folks don’t know what a full cord or face cord is. Good job. You two are something.
Great video, great information. Entertaining as always. Definitely need to start adding the short blooper videos at the end. So cool
Funny!
Like stacking firewood.
We measure our own wood for our own in solid cords...
If we sell any its in face cords...aka city cords...
That wood in your video is what we would call furnace wood size.
Looks nice!
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Ya’ll are An Awesome Family!
Here in Maine, 1 cord of Firewood thrown is 180 cf. State law. The history of cord wood is this , 4ft. X 4ft. X 8ft in the round, not cut or split, 128 cu ft. A delivered 180 cf. will stack out around 110 cu ft.
Great explanation as always! Go Team!
Great video! Loved the out-takes. 😂
Well done explaining ,rick,face cord and cord. I remember buying a pick up truck load with a bed that was 4&1/2’ wide , 3&1/2’ deep , and 8’ long. They called it a cord of wood. I think it was more like a rick. Emerald and Jade you are good honest people .
Thank you for the comment. We want the quantity to be exact…Boss Man.
Unless it was stacked in there, it wasn't a cord. Firewood piled randomly has a lot more airspace in it than stacked wood.
I’ve found that lots of firewood sellers (especially those who sell roadside) claim that their pickup bed of wood is a cord. It’s always tossed in the bed loosely and sometimes it’s only a 6’ bed. I haven’t seen any who actually deliver a full cord.
@@JT_70 Another commenter said that a cord of wood thrown randomly in a pile occupies 180 cu ft. I don't know where he cot that number, or if it's right ... but if that's accurate, then a 128 cu ft space filled with firewood thrown in vs stacked would be less than 3/4 of a cord.
We cut/split/stack our own firewood, and stack it along our house fence in long single-width rows . I get pallets and cut off one side to make skinny bases (two stringers with slats) to elevate the wood off the ground for provide airflow and limit moisture. We stack the wood about 5’ - 6’ high, Avery couple feet I include a 3’ branch that goes from the stack into the chain link fence behind to provide stability, and I also include a couple 4’ limbs lengthwise to tie the wall of wood together, because our dogs like to try to get to the mice nesting between the logs - the lateral and transverse stabilization is important to limit vet bills. Finally, I top the stack with pieces of old steel roof metal to keep the rain off. Those are secured with pieces of paracord run through the stack. Firewood is cut year-round, and we have a couple stacks around the fence line, and as the wood is consumed from one end of a stack it is replaced with fresh cut. By the time we get back to that point, it is seasoned two years.
In northern ontario. We call a 4x4x8 hole logs a bush cord. 16inchx 4x8 a face cord n 16inch x4x8 split a cord.
I hate pilling. I split all my wood by hand around 5 bush cord n my kids pile. Long live the blaze king .❤
Lovely background of the mountains!😊
Love watching you two nice job!
4' x 4' x8' is known as a Bush Cord. 4' x 8' x 16" is a Face Cord. Tightly piled. Thanks for the Great smile and laugh Jade.♥
Love the bloopers! Good info here.
Cut wood for 50 years. Cut trees, hauled out of woods, unloaded trailer ( no stack), split, fed wood furnace. Cut approx 8-10 (4’X4’X8’) cords per season. My wood piles looked like the piles behind you. Plenty of work! Now converted to wood pellets in a pellet furnace. We burn approximately 5-6 Ton/year. I appreciate the 40 pounds now! That 50 years of hard labor for 6-8 weeks per year is probably the only reason that I made it to 76 years, so far!
What it's Friday? Interesting video, nice wet cold weather lucky
My youth, my life, my love, Pennsylvania forests. ❤ The beauty, the smells, the sounds. No matter where you end up. These stay with you forever in a life time.
Thanks guys. Good job ladies and young man.
more bloopers! so funny!
Haha...the family that stacks together sticks together!!!
Thanks beautiful ladies
We always made our cords what we called a little heavy. Nothing to do with weight just an extra foot on the end so that it was just a bit over no matter what. We did in the past sell a rick but that is pretty well gone now with face cords. Excellent job ladies thank you.👍♥️♥️
Excellent job.....very well done. 👍
We sell our firewood (stacked) in 1 face cord bags. Customer chooses their bags and either pick them up or we deliver (dropped) no stacking.
Your family does a great job at being fair. Bang for the buck.
I cut my own trees and split them and stack them. I love the heat from wood, especially hickory!
When I was in rural Australia, the farm I was on used to sell firewood by the ton, which for the hardwood we were selling, was about a square metre of firewood per ton.
How was the wood weighed, what type of scale? I was thinking a scale can be made out of a large container put in water, and then checking it's depth in the water after the wood was placed in it.
Jade is absolutely gorgeous!!!
Cut, split, and stack two cords this week...the trunk of the tree split out eight large pieces. Been doing the same thing year after year, that's what we do on our farm...
Thanks LCLY❤
3 face cord is a bush cord in canada. That.s what it is called where i am from same measurments.
Despite the cold weather this time of year has its some special charm. The spruce and pine trees stand out especially among of leafless trees. That kind of firewood cord is exactly the one I like to use. And another firewood cord way I like to use is to lay down the chunks in one direction first and the next row in a perpendicular direction. The firewood in these piles is looking good, I sure it produces a lot of heat. I wonder why Jade laughed in the bloopers section🙂? Maybe there is no necessary for Jade to repeat Em' motions and it would be better to let Jade to act on her own. This is just my opinion. (Hi from Belarus. Harry Davidson).
Hmmmm, if you are including the 2 end stacks in your 1/3rd of a cord, you should add 1 more piece of wood to every layer.
Hahahaha, Jade's dance needs to be a chat alert GIF or member sticker xD
Oh my gosh, you two are so cute
Wow hadn't ever heard Jade speak ❤❤
I have been heating our home with a wood stove since 1982. It's about 1700 square feet and framed with 2x6 lumber instead of 2x4 lumber. It's a 1.5 story cape with an open floor plan so it's well suited to a wood stove. We use an Energy Harvester stove and it does the trick. We burn under 3 cords each year. I've got a wood shed that always has a two year supply of seasoned wood--seasoned 2 years stacked inside. I've had the same firewood supplier for quite a while now and he delivers one cord to us for three consecutive Saturdays. The firewood is stacked, not dumped, into the trailer and his price is extremely fair and reasonable.
I'm 77 years old now and still move and stack the wood into the shed. Luckily, he can dump each load right in front of the shed opening so it's a matter of tossing the wood in and stacking it up.
I stack each cord over a couple of days or so. It's good exercise!
Over the years, I've cut numerous cords of wood from our 2.5 acre property. So I've saved a ton of money burning wood for heat for over 40 years. Once I got into my early to mid-60s, I began hiring a chimney sweep instead of going up on the roof myself. About 4 years ago, I had him install a stainless steel chimney liner as the mortar joints in the flue tiles were deteriorating from all the heat and gases going up the 4 flue chimney. There are two fireplace flues and one flue to the basement, in addition to the one for the wood stove.
Our backup heat source is electric baseboard heat and that is much more expensive to rely on for winter heat. I'm looking into have mini-split ductless units installed as a future heat source. The electric baseboards would be the last resort with the wood stove still being the most economical method of heating but also the most labor intensive method.
Our wood burning costs us under $700/year. Using electric baseboards would cost a bit over $5000/year, and Ductless Heat Pumps would cost about $1900/yr.
So when stacking and hauling wood and filling the stove becomes untenable due to my age, etc, the heat pump system is the most attractive choice. We're out in the country so there are no natural gas lines around. Propane is also expensive. The heat pumps are extremely close in operating costs as to what a pellet stove would be.
I love heating with wood and the stove is sized perfectly to the home. The first floor is nice and toasty and the bedrooms on the second floor are cooler for good sleeping.
Lastly, I really do enjoy all the videos you produce. You both are members of a great family with lots of built-in supports. Keep doing what you are doing. It's educational and entertaining and it's nice seeing the business grow and develop. That's living the American Dream!
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Happy weekend!
If you haven’t read the book, Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, it is a great resource for firewood users, presented in an informative, engaging, and humorous way.
Great Video But for me it is a trip to the back 40 drop and cut to stove length bring it in split and put in the woodshed Burn between 5-8 cord a season here in Maine nothing feels better than wood heat .