You can't make this stuff up or maybe it's enough with the CL's ads

[Jack Straw]

Unseasoned Firewood Hardwoods - $60 (Capital District)

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Date: 2011-05-09, 7:35AM EDT
Reply to: sale-jyvad-2370309405@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
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Offering quality hardwoods for home heating. Mixture of oak, red oak, maple, beech. This will be ready to burn in the fall.
Stock up and save now. Pickup or delivery. $60 a face cord/$200 a full cord. Most pieces cut to "16-18. Can accomodate
larger lengths for outdoor boilers. Call 518-813-####



Ok what's wrong with this one? :lol:

 

[yooperdave]

poster duz nut pozess math skilz

 

[Flatbedford]

Buy in bulk and spend more!

 

[Jack Straw]

I called and come to find out his face cords are actually the size of his face ;-) :roll:

 

[shouldntbesocomplicated]

Sounds like a great deal to me ,not I just dont get the buy more pay more

 

[fossil]

Sounds like a great deal to me ,not I just dont get the buy more pay more

Face cord = ~ 1/3 cord. 3 face cords @ $60 = $180/cord. Rick

 

[shouldntbesocomplicated]

Sounds like a great deal to me ,not I just dont get the buy more pay more

Face cord = ~ 1/3 cord. 3 face cords @ $60 = $180/cord. Rick

Thanks Rick my math came out the same must not be dictionary face cords lol

 

[wannabegreener]

He must have run the lottery before. The saying for the lottery is:

It's for people who failed math. (The odds of winning are not in your favor.)

He's just expanding that theory to the firewood business.

 

[weatherguy]

Just buy 6 face cords and $AVE

 

[mayhem]

Sounds like a great deal to me ,not I just dont get the buy more pay more

Face cord = ~ 1/3 cord. 3 face cords @ $60 = $180/cord. Rick

Face cord = a pile of wood splits of a uniform, but undefined length 4 feet by 8 feet. Face cord is a 2 dimentional unit of measure and cannot be reliably used to determine volume, nothing says the splits are 16" long, they could be 10" and its still a face cord.

 

[shouldntbesocomplicated]

Sounds like a great deal to me ,not I just dont get the buy more pay more

Face cord = ~ 1/3 cord. 3 face cords @ $60 = $180/cord. Rick

Face cord = a pile of wood splits of a uniform, but undefined length 4 feet by 8 feet. Face cord is a 2 dimentional unit of measure and cannot be reliably used to determine volume, nothing says the splits are 16" long, they could be 10" and its still a face cord.

His add states, Most pieces cut to “16-18. Can accomodate so I will ask for them cut at 48" and order a few face cords,lol

 

[mayhem]

See that? Reading is fundamental!

 

[Lumber-Jack]

I never heard of a face cord until I joined this forum, it's a term that is just not used in my area, and from what I've seen here it can be just about anything. Seems to me it's just a loose term for a load of wood that is nowhere near a proper cord. More of a meaningless made up word than an exact useful measurment. Kind of like saying,"Wood for sale, $100 per load", which is what they say around here.

 

[weatherguy]

I never heard of a face cord until I joined this forum, it's a term that is just not used in my area, and from what I've seen here it can be just about anything. Seems to me it's just a loose term for a load of wood that is nowhere near a proper cord. More of a meaningless made up word than an exact useful measurment. Kind of like saying,"Wood for sale, $100 per load", which is what they say around here.

I never heard face cord before either but I thought it meant 16" x 4' x 8' which would be a third of a cord, but since Ive never heard the term til I joined here, who knows.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

It's a 4'x8' pile of stove-length wood. Ya, ya- cut it 20' long. Normally 16-18" splits. It's a dumb measure, and in many places when they say a cord- they mean a face cord.

They may as well measure in pantloads.

 

[Kenster]

I don't know why we, the members of this forum. even use the term "face cord." We all know what a 'cord' is. But someone will post something about paying, say, $120 a cord and someone else will ask "Is that a cord or a FACE cord?"

We should only speak in terms of 'dictionary' cords. Period.

Just sayin'

 

[Flatbedford]

We should only speak in terms of 'dictionary' cords. Period.

New Rule!

Cord or fractions of dictionary cords will be the accepted measurement hence forth.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

How about a butt cord?

 

[Flatbedford]

How about a butt cord?

Is that what you end get when you split sitting down?

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well Steve, I never thought about it that way but maybe you're onto something there. :lol: