How Much Wood Do you Think? (Update With Pictures)

[Todd]

So a guy tells me he has 30 or so 16" diameter Red Oak rounds and if I'm interested make an offer. Kind a tough without looking at it. Can anyone give a guesstimate how much wood this would come out to? I'm thinking close to a half cord?

 

[okotoks guy]

I would say by my calculations that there would (should) be around 67.6 Cubic Feet.
Just as you said about 1/2 a cord. This is assuming that the rounds are all 16" in diameter
and cut to 16" lengths.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

$50 as a SWAG. Maybe a face cord but I doubt a half cord.

 

[SolarAndWood]

.67*.67*3.14*1.33*30=56 cu ft of solid wood. I'd say much better than half a cord if you use 80 as the standard and his numbers are right on average.

 

[okotoks guy]

.67*.67*3.14*1.33*30=56 cu ft of solid wood. I'd say much better than half a cord if you use 80 as the standard and his numbers are right on average.

80 cubic feet is standard for what? Certainly not a cord which is 128 cubic feet.
Just Curious; what does the .67 and 1.33 represent?

 

[SolarAndWood]

128 includes the air. 80 is in the range of generally accepted solid content of a cord. .67 ft is the radius, 1.33 the height of the cylinder.

 

[smokinj]

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[SolarAndWood]

That's rough, I'd at least offer him a 12 pack.

 

[smokinj]

That's rough, I'd at least offer him a 12 pack.

I might share a 12 pack...lol To much work and really cant understand why people would pay to work. There a big stick of white oak 40 inchs at the big end its 12 foot long. These goofy people want 500.00 for it after every saw mill has refuse them. Now the grass is getting pretty tall around it. I told them you pay me 500.00 and I will have you ready for mowing season.lol I WILL NOT PAY SOMEONE FOR MY LABOR...

 

[SolarAndWood]

I WILL NOT PAY SOMEONE FOR MY LABOR...

I am there as well. Everything I get is bucked when I get there and it is a win-win feeling for me to haul it away for them.

 

[smokinj]

I WILL NOT PAY SOMEONE FOR MY LABOR...

I am there as well. Everything I get is bucked when I get there and it is a win-win feeling for me to haul it away for them.

This one just has me floored! lol Its not even worth 500.00 stacked for 3 years.......Trying to get a pick of it, this tree will be there for a very long time. Funny how a storm comes through and the home owner wins 500.00 bucks.....NOT!

 

[Wood Duck]

I WILL NOT PAY SOMEONE FOR MY LABOR...

I am there as well. Everything I get is bucked when I get there and it is a win-win feeling for me to haul it away for them.

This one just has me floored! lol Its not even worth 500.00 stacked for 3 years.......Trying to get a pick of it, this tree will be there for a very long time. Funny how a storm comes through and the home owner wins 500.00 bucks.....NOT!

I obviously need scrounging lessons from you guys. I get the wood for free, but I generally have to buck it, and sometimes fell the tree, too.

 

[smokinj]

I WILL NOT PAY SOMEONE FOR MY LABOR...

I am there as well. Everything I get is bucked when I get there and it is a win-win feeling for me to haul it away for them.

This one just has me floored! lol Its not even worth 500.00 stacked for 3 years.......Trying to get a pick of it, this tree will be there for a very long time. Funny how a storm comes through and the home owner wins 500.00 bucks.....NOT!

I obviously need scrounging lessons from you guys. I get the wood for free, but I generally have to buck it, and sometimes fell the tree, too.

Me too, But I do get some delivered as well for free. l Am working on a big sugar maple now.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Jay will soon have the state of Indiana treeless.

 

[smokinj]

Jay will soon have the state of Indiana treeless.

Not this year, I think Indiana is pretty safe! lol

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well if you'd have the rain stop for a while you could get busy Jay. Keep on cutting!

 

[Todd]

I went and picked it up and it turns out there were 42 rounds with most sitting on the ground. Surprisingly there was little punk or rot and still very heavy. He took $45 for the whole lot and helped me load them. All the bark fell off as we rolled them up into the trailer, I had to make 2 trips. We made quite a mess in his yard and I offered to help clean up but he said don't worry about it. Most rounds were 12-18" diameter as well as length. I stacked them up in a 20' row ready to split when I get my new 36" Fiskars. This load should burn well in 2013-14 along with my Locust, Maple and Hackberry which is behind the Oak.

 

[mecreature]

seems like a good deal to me.

 

[maxed_out]

nice going...well done. 2 loads in the trailer pictured thats got to be a couple of cords, no?

 

[Todd]

Couple more pics. I'm thinking maybe close to 3/4 cord.

 

[weatherguy]

I went and picked it up and it turns out there were 42 rounds with most sitting on the ground. Surprisingly there was little punk or rot and still very heavy. He took $45 for the whole lot and helped me load them. All the bark fell off as we rolled them up into the trailer, I had to make 2 trips. We made quite a mess in his yard and I offered to help clean up but he said don’t worry about it. Most rounds were 12-18†diameter as well as length. I stacked them up in a 20’ row ready to split when I get my new 36†Fiskars. This load should burn well in 2013-14 along with my Locust, Maple and Hackberry which is behind the Oak.

Thats a good deal, after all he cut the tree and cut it into rounds. If it was just 4 foot lengths I wont pay but if someone cuts it up for easy moving I feel a few bucks is a good deal for both parties.
Looks like more than a cord to me but Im not that good at guessing amounts.

 

[ecocavalier02]

def. over a cord

 

[Bigg_Redd]

So a guy tells me he has 30 or so 16" diameter Red Oak rounds and if I'm interested make an offer. Kind a tough without looking at it. Can anyone give a guesstimate how much wood this would come out to? I'm thinking close to a half cord?

Offer him $1 per round. Next, split and stack it. Then tell us how much it turned out to be.

 

[Todd]

Split up the two rows and came up with 1.6 cords. Got to try out my new Fiskars and it does do a better job than my other mauls but still had to use the gas powered splitter for some twisted knotty Silver Maple and Oak rounds. No sense in wasting energy whacking away at those gnarly rounds. Still have some room for a little more.