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Cutting and hauling firewood
Peters I think I'd like your wood. When I was growing up the kitchen stove wood was split with an axe in the shed on a HUGE block. Most of the furnace wood was split up by the buzz saw (an old antique device now the big saws are much faster) with what we called a Go-Devil (like a sled hammer only one side sharpened for splitting). We had some wood blocks (old elm and if I recall down south is a tree called gumball) you could not split in 2 days of trying with a maul you had to use wedges.
The big 20+" maple and beech blocks here can be usually be split with my mosnter maul but usually less energy is used (by me) on the hyd splitter.
I usually try to have 20 face cords put up and hope to only use 15.
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Use of terms varies. I think of ricks mostly as referring to hay or straw stacks that are shaped up well enough to cover rather than of a particular volume. Face cord often means 1/2 cord but an older use is a stack 4'x8'x 1-piece. It's the face of a cord of 4'x'8'x4'. The amount of wood depends on the thickness of the pieces.
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I agree with Tom's comment, "Use of terms varies." Boy does it vary.
In Canada, and probably elsewhere, anything sold by quantity must be sold by a legally defined measure. In Canada however, the only legally recognized measure for firewood is the cord, terms such as 'face cord', etc., are just commonly used euphuisms, not legal terms.
The norm however is that a face cord is 4'x8'x16" being one third of a cord. Legally though you can only sell by fractions of cords, so a face cord would then have to be called a 1/3 cord to be legal. Oh well.
As for the splitting process, I use to make up a lot of 'Manual Splitters' for friends & nieghbours, they work well, are WAY safer than axe or maul, and are very handy for women, elders or youths to split wood.
It is basically a steel plate which lays flat on the floor and forms the foot of the device. Welded to this, at one side or in a corner, is a peice of heavy wall 2" (O.D.) square tubing (3' is a good length) rising vertically from the plate. Now for the tricky part, take a regular 4 to 6 pound splitting wedge and weld it to a peice of heavy flat bar (I use 1/2"x 4" , the flat bar is in turn welded to a 6" length of heavy wall 2" (I.D) tubing, the flat bar should be of such a length to position the wedge in the center of the plate when the one tube is slid over the other one forming the upright. A small catch which holds the wedge at the top of the riser is handy.
In operation you merely put a block on the plate under the wedge and strike the top of the wedge with a sledgehammer, whatever size is comfortable for the operator. The nifty part is that you never have a block jump or roll when you hit it, and if the wedge sticks on the first blow there is no wrestling to get the axe or maul free for a second hit, and even then the second or third blows ALWAYS find the same mark as the first, mimizing swinging effort required.
Best of luck.
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Speaking of firewood, how much does it sell for in your area?
Here, in SE Oklahoma, it goes for anywhere between 75$ to 120$ per cord. This is split, delivered and stacked. Most people sell wood here by the rick, which is 1/3 of a cord. By the way, just like Murf said, the cord (4'x8'x4') is the only 'legal' measurement used for firewood (here anyway).
If you asked anyone around here how much wood they use a year, they'll tell you in ricks.
Billy
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Southern Ontario, a full cord of dry hard wood split and dropped in your driveway is $160 to $200 depending on whether you're in the city or suburbs, etc. and a 'face cord' (16" will cost you about $60 to $80.
You can save a little by buying larger quantities or even truckloads wholesale but not many people are equipped to handle a truckload of logs. Presently a truckload (yields about 8 full cords) will cost you about $500 but it is green wood, so it is for next years burn unless you have a kiln box.
All of the above in 'Beaver Bucks' of course ...
Best of luck.
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Murf if thats a Canadian dollar then we have about the same price here.
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