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Firewood guys. A question. #7575402
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Cut down a big ash tree down today.
At the butt, it's 23". Where I ended up,, the Cobbs are about 10". I cut it up into Cobbs that average about 18" long.
I got 28 Cobbs.
Cord wise, what do I have.? Gotta split it yet.
Thanks..


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575414
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What is a Cobb ?


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575425
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There's roughly 500 board feet to the cord Scribner scale; I would scale that in three logs, maybe a 16 and two 12's. It might get you somewhat close.
Add a zero to all the volume numbers shown on the table; in other words, a 12 foot log 10 inches diameter on the small end would be 30 board feet.

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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575428
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Originally Posted by bucksnbears
Cut down a big ash tree down today.
At the butt, it's 23". Where I ended up,, the Cobbs are about 10". I cut it up into Cobbs that average about 18" long.
I got 28 Cobbs.
Cord wise, what do I have.? Gotta split it yet.
Thanks..

Dang man.....pass that around... laugh

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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575431
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splitting will decrease the volume by +25% vs log measurements in a pile ( air space taken away)
35 cubic feet would be my estimate
So a pile can shrink down to 92 cu ft from the 128 off a skid pile.

Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575437
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made good money in bandsaw cut ash 1 1/2 inch thick over 20 feet long because they are used for the top rail of cedar stripe canoes

Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575442
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Real rough you have 28 rounds at 18 inches long and average of about 15 inches in diameter



a cord is 8 feet long 4 feet high and 4 feet deep

15inches goes into 8 feet 6 times so there is a face width

and it goes into 4 feet 3 times so so that is a face hight

6x3=18 of those rounds is a face

I would say you have a touch over a half cord might be 2/3 depending on how you stack it

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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575466
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Dang!, was hoping I had a cord at least. frown
This was hard work. Tree had a huge amount of limbs. Trimming them and pileup was the worst part.
Thanks guys cool


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575544
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Originally Posted by bucksnbears
Dang!, was hoping I had a cord at least. frown
This was hard work. Tree had a huge amount of limbs. Trimming them and pileup was the worst part.
Thanks guys cool


might get there if you include all those limbs everything down to inch and a half, or so , it all burns

it's hard to say till you have it stacked

if you hauled it how many truck beds full?


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575730
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What you have is 62 cubic feet of solid wood in those "cobbs".

Generally, a cord is thought of as 128 cubic feet, but, that includes a lot of air space.

My guess is: once split and stacked, you can count on around 3/4 of a cord, or a bit over two face cords.

Add to that any 3-4" branches, and you have over your 1 cord goal.


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: AntiGov] #7575738
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Originally Posted by AntiGov
What is a Cobb ?

I think he means a piece of firewood. Just a guess.


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575739
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"Rounds " should have been used instead of Cobbs.
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Been splitting for a while this a.m.
Geez, them big rounds are heavy!


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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575761
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Originally Posted by bucksnbears
"Rounds " should have been used instead of Cobbs.
blush

Been splitting for a while this a.m.
Geez, them big rounds are heavy!

We call them "Blocks". In other words,,the wood has been blocked up,(to length),but not split yet.

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Re: Firewood guys. A question. [Re: bucksnbears] #7575776
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lots of regional language in wood here you buck a tree into rounds

if you have a big tree you would noodle your rounds into haves or quarters

noodling because of the long stingy noodle like chips


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