rdust said:
Instead of using a tape make a stick to your max length, it makes it easier. For me I have a stick marked from 14-18, less than 14 doesn't get put on the pile.
Good idea. I was getting pretty good at guessing lengths after a bit, but wanted to be scrupulous about not putting anything on the too-long pile that didn't belong there, since I want to be very straight with the seller.
Several times I'd pick out a piece of wood of a good size to measure, but it wasn't much more convenient than the tape, and sooner or later it would get tossed to get chopped.
I'm setting my shorts aside to stack on top of the pile for stove fillers, as gyrfalcon suggested, and I can live with those being part of the delivery--there's not too many of them. The longs are, so far, actually more than half of the wood I've sorted--it would sound crazy, except I think it's just a function of him not having burned wood before.