I know a cord is a 4x4x8 tightly stacked load. I just have no idea how much wood is in a dump truck bed. If I assume it's all higglety/pigglety thrown in splits, what am I looking at? Is it roughly two cords? I'm just blindly guessing...
How much wood is in a dump truck load?
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It depends what type of truck. Most guys around here use one ton dump body pickups with sideboards. A rounded off load is roughly 1 cord.
How deep is a hole? Dump trucks come in all shapes and sizes. Are you buying it by the dump truck load. This is not meant to be sarcastic but there is a reason why the standard measure is a cord. Even if you know the truck dimensions, what is a load? If you have pics of the pile then some folks on here are pretty good at guessing the cordage. But a dump truck load don't tell us much.
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Beer Belly
Minister of Fire
Paulywalnut
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Nice Ash! Yep. Most of the small dump trucks hold a cord. The bigger construction type,
maybe two cord.
maybe two cord.
wish I could get a dump truck load like yours beer belly. hard to get it around here unless its already processed.
Smoke Stack
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I have an International 4700 dump that I can pile two cord (+) in easily. Most 1 ton dump bodies with 1' side boards, neatly stacked with splits up to the top of the side boards, will be a cord. If loosely dumped in it should mound up over the side boards a good foot or two.
Phoenix Hatchling
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This was my last dump truck load...free.........
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Damn, Beer Belly - can ya send that dump truck to my part of CT??
Phoenix Hatchling
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Beer Belly
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This load is a little smaller than the last one I got....but I'll take it !!......I live in Bethel, I asked if he would go to Redding, or Brookfield, and he declined
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