Craigslist PSA of the day

Well its unfair for the honest dealers who actually work at selling a quality product to offer wood for 260.00 a solid cord when some jamoke is pushing a pickup truck "cord" for 180.00. (Which is actually 360.00) You think you shopped around and got the best price (not)
There's alot of A-holes out there and Im glad I got off my lazy butt and started cutting all my own. Now I only have myself to blame for short unseasoned cords.

Rut13 said:

I came across this and was quite impressed someone who doesn't even sell wood would take the time to explain in great detail what a cord actually is.
http://cleveland.craigslist.org/for/5255719774.html

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I wonder if the person is a hearth.com member.

How's he figure you can't get a full cord in a truck? It's called racks.

Mr. Jones said:

How's he figure you can't get a full cord in a truck? It's called racks.

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I don't think I've seen anyone selling a pickup truck full of wood with racks.

I've actually seen sections of the above write up included in craigslist ads in my area. One company sells face cords and they included a good portion of this, word for word, in their ad. I wonder if it is from some other source? I agree it is very helpful.

The whole write is copied word for word from a well known wood burning web site.

Copper44 said:

The whole write is copied word for word from a well known wood burning web site.

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yup, here it is.

Wisneaky said:

I don't think I've seen anyone selling a pickup truck full of wood with racks.

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Haha. Right here. That's got to be about a cord, eh? I'm not sure how he drove this anywhere, since it looks like his hitch is touching the ground.

why would you gas up your wood shed and drive it around?

pssssst
photo.......
shop.

Mr. Jones said:

View attachment 163437 Haha. Right here. That's got to be about a cord, eh? I'm not sure how he drove this anywhere, since it looks like his hitch is touching the ground.

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Love that pic, I have it stored in my phone from last year

El Finko said:

why would you gas up your wood shed and drive it around?

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good one also!

Mr. Jones said:

How's he figure you can't get a full cord in a truck? It's called racks.

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Work out the weight. You aren't getting a cord of wood on an F-350.

JSeery said:

IOne company sells face cords

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Would you buy gasoline from a station that sells it for 20 dollars a gooboer? How about if they sell it for $300 a fergnisnit?

"Well, what's a gooboer or a fergnisnit?", you ask?

You don't know.

Still interested in buying? Of course not.

Well, what if the seller tells you how much is in a gooboer or a fergnisnit? Are you going to trust his definition?

Not if you have a functioning brain.

The "gallon" is a legally defined unit of measure. If you buy by the gallon, you know what you are getting., and you have legal recourse if you are shorted.

Gooboer or a fergnisnit? No legal definition, no legal recourse.


The same thing is true of a "face cord" a "furnace cord" or a "rick" or any of the other bogus terms that are used. NONE of them have a legal definition, and NONE of them are legally enforceable.

BlueRidgeMark said:

Work out the weight. You aren't getting a cord of wood on an F-350.

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Weight wise a cord will fit in an F350. Well a 95 year and up anyway.

My old man used to take us to the mountains to get wood in an old 63 ford half ton with high racks, so please stop telling me you can't get a cord in a truck, especially a 350. After about 5 years, one day we snapped the axle, so yea, it's not recommended, but we still did it, by volume, in a half ton truck. Had he had my 3/4 ton, it wouldn't have been a problem. Unless a cord to you isn't 4x4x8, then I'm not sure what else to tell you. Hell, we had 6 foot tall racks, and heaping load, so that's even more than a cord. It's all dead, lighter wood, since you can't just cut down green trees without some sort of permit. I'd go buy a trailer, but I have ran out of room, and would only use it a couple of times a year for wood, so it's pointless when I've got a truck that will haul a cord.

A cord of oak weighs 5500 at 20% moisture.

128 in a cord. We used to get 8x4x6 with the 6 foot racks. That's 192. Take away the wheel wells. Now what's the weight of dry tamarack, and that's how much we'd tow in the back of the half ton truck. Not 3/4. Not 1 ton. 1963 F100. Hell, that might not even be a half ton.

Mr. Jones said:

View attachment 163437 Haha. Right here. That's got to be about a cord, eh? I'm not sure how he drove this anywhere, since it looks like his hitch is touching the ground.

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I'm crying laughing at that! Thanks

Lots of people have told me that you can't put a full cord on a pickup truck, heck my own dad told me so. I have proved that wrong 100 times over.
Just yesterday I was out cutting wood with my dad and he watched me stack my truck with rounds until they were above the roof.
He had an 83" x 22 foot trailer with 3 foot sides behind his truck and filled it half full. He got stuck where he was parked and I ended up pulling the trailer out with my truck.
I can easily carry a full cord of oak on my truck and I don't need sided to do it. We tossed the wood from my truck onto the trailer when we got back to his place and it topped off the trailer, which was already half full. The math says that trailer holds over 3 cord with a level load, but we had it heaped.