Please check my math ...

My truck bed measures:

5' Wide x 5.5' Long x 1.5' Tall

That equals: 41.25 Cubic Feet.

Subtract for the wheel wells:

1' Wide x 2.5' Long  x .5' Tall

That equals: 1.25 Cubic Feet.

41.25 - 1.25 = 40 Cubic Feet.

A cord of firewood is 128 Cubic Feet.

How many truck loads of evenly stacked firewood, to the top of the bed, would it take to get 128 Cubic Feet of firewood (A full cord)?

The answer I came up with is 3.2 truckloads, not 1 like I'm being told.

Am I missing something here?

I'd like to know how an area that holds 40 Cubic Feet magically can handle 128 Cubic Feet? Or is it that Missouri math these people are so famous for?

  The cubic ft. measurement is sketchy at best because the way the wood is stacked and split can make a huge difference in how much fits in a pickup truck. I have usually measured wood by dimensions instead of cubic ft. I forget now its something like 4ft wide by 4ft. high and 8ft. long....its been awhile and that may not be right. Unlike measuring something like a concrete pour to put all of something irregular shaped into a space exactly is highly unlikely, if anything you will need  more space.

 I remember getting a cord into my old van with it dragging the ground almost.....you must have one of those smaller pickups, I thought they had 8ft. beds.5x5.5 isn't much space,yeah 3 or 4 trips sounds about right.

 

Wow Mike, you are right! I did forget to take off for the second wheel well. That's flippin' funny! :-)

The bed capacity comes to 38.75 C/Ft after deducting for both wheel wells.

I got 2 pickup loads. The first was below the top of the bed because the truck couldn't handle the weight. The second was even with the top. So I didn't even get two full truck loads.

I called the guy ... he accused me of lying. He said he has the exact same truck as I do and he delivers a full cord of firewood in one trip all the time.

He would have to have it stacked roughly 3 feet over the top of the cab ... it's not possible for that truck to handle that. I couldn't even get it stacked to the top of the bed, the wheel wells were about 2 inches from the tire.

I'm so sick and tired of having to fight for everything. It was bad in Ia., but it seems to be much worse down here. I can't tell you how many times I've been screwed since I've been here. What makes it even worse is, this guy is one of my neighbors, about a mile away.

My wife and I promised each other we won't do anything again here unless it's in writing, and we will not pay anyone a dime until the work is 100% completed. If they don't agree to those terms, c'ya'. We caved on our promise to ourselves with the last guy we hired to do some excavation work, and he screwed us. He came highly recommended, does a lot of work for Morton. He was super nice and made us feel all warm and fuzzy ... and didn't do half of what he said he was going to do. It will never happen again I can tells ya that pardners'. :-)

spacey

If I were selling a cord of wood it would be stacked up in a pile
that was 128 cu.ft. and it wouldn't matter to me what you hauled it off with or
how you measured your truck.

Exactly what should have happened!

Problem is, I couldn't see the pile they were getting wood from because of the way they had it stacked. It was like walking through a giant maze of wood piles and they were taking it from the back of the pile.

There were two guys, one was bringing it out by the arm full, the other by the wheelbarrow full. They said half a row was a cord, but I couldn't really see it. It was all covered up with blue tarps.

It is good wood ... there was only 1 or 2 pieces of junk ... it's just, the owner wasn't there, his guys didn't give me enough wood, they are lying to save their own ass, he's believing them, and I'm getting screwed. And what makes this even worse ... he's an uber-holy roller. You would think someone like that would have the understanding to take a step back and think, gee, maybe my neighbor isn't lying to me and trying to screw me over and an honest mistake did happen.

But no, he has to get all redneck and start yelling and accusing me of lying. Honestly, what kind of a moron claims to be able to haul a full cord of wood in a 38.75 cubic foot pickup? I want some of what he's smoking. LOL

The pile the way I have it stacked is 13' x 2' x 3' = 78 C/Ft. Exactly what my truck can handle in two loads.

What bugs me more about this is than me personally getting taken is, how many other people has he screwed (intentional or otherwise) that are a lot worse off than I am, ya know what I mean? Not saying I'm rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I have set myself up so I can live on the bare minimum if need be for a little while. There's a lot of folks in this area that aren't in that good of shape and it really upsets me to see someone taking advantage of people.

Letting it go and moving on in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ....

Ahhhhhhhh.

Thanks for listening.

:-)

It'll take less space if you set light to it first and then transport it as ash.

HTH.........

Apparently they delivered a bilkers cord. 

Sort of like a bakers dozen only in reverse.

Would the math change if the units were stinky feet instead of cubic?

Bub

He would have to have it stacked roughly 3 feet over the top of the cab ... it's not possible for that truck to handle that. I couldn't even get it stacked to the top of the bed, the wheel wells were about 2 inches from the tire.

Woodn't that depend on how heavy it is and not how much there is of it?

Bub
 Even with the top off the bed is 38.75 C/F, so imagine how high it would have to be to fit 128 C/F. :-)

It would be a few sticks over 3 x the bed depth.   Simples.
 
Anything higher than the wheel wells and you can remove them from the equation.... so you're effectivly working with a 40cf load bed x 3  which would come to just over the roof line.
 
A couple of load straps from the tail gate, over the load, over the roof and down to the custom slots in the front bumper fender and yer done.
 
I guess thats what the custom slots are for...

Karyn

Bub
 Even with the top off the bed is 38.75 C/F, so imagine how high it would have to be to fit 128 C/F. :-)

It would be a few sticks over 3 x the bed depth.   Simples.
 
Anything higher than the wheel wells and you can remove them from the equation.... so you're effectivly working with a 40cf load bed x 3  which would come to just over the roof line.
 
A couple of load straps from the tail gate, over the load, over the roof and down to the custom slots in the front bumper fender and yer done.
 
I guess thats what the custom slots are for...

:-)

  I feel bad for ya Bub. I have been ripped a few times on wood too after I stopped cutting it and started buying it. 

craigb

So cords are back in fashion?  Who knew??!

You just made me have a flashback that I wish I didn't have. :)

When I was a kid, in the mid 70's, we were dirt poor. One time my mom went 'school clothes' shopping for me in the local 5 & Dime. She came home with 3 pair of these brown corduroy bell bottoms and these black hard healed shoes that were kind of like boots, but not. The school had wooden floors and I sounded like one of those Swedish clog dancers walking across the floor. It was mortifying, even for the 70's.

tbosco


Get gas logs.  Period.   Then ya don't have to worry about wood, ashes, transportation, delivery, bugs, storage, carrying the logs, sore back, broken bones from slipping on the ice while carrying/stacking....PLUS your truck will love you more.

I had my gas logs installed about 6 years ago... best $1300 I ever spent!  AND... they nearly heat my entire house since the flue can be kept shut.  Great during a power outage!!

We're probably going to do that when they get natural gas out here ... right now we're stuck on propane and it's expensive.

I'm on track to use $600 + a month ... in Iowa when we were on NG ... in the dead of winter, maybe it was $100 ~ $125.

The other problem is, this house isn't insulated in the attic. There's only a couple inches of blow-in insulation and it's 20+ years old. Nobody has ever added more to it since the place was built. We're getting it done on Dec 19th and we're keeping our fingers crossed that it will make a dramatic improvement. We're getting R49 of the new kind of fiberglass stuff that doesn't settle and is non-allergenic.

You can't tell if you have a full cord until you get it stacked out of the truck. The measurement is? It escapes me at the moment.

This story reminded me of our local sawmill..they call themselves 'Merchants of Character' on their sign...I call them 'odd'.

I ordered a quantity of fence posts for a job a couple of years back, waited all afternoon and they never showed with the order.

I called them up up and the guy said ''oh yes, it was delivered this morning''

''No'' I replied ''it's definitely not here''.

''Oh, it'll be there somewhere'' he answered.

(the 'it' being forty 8' x 3'' x 3'' posts...difficult to hide, eh?)

''I can assure you, it ain't''.

''Hold on'' he said, ''I'll come over and show you where it is''

Half an hour later he pulled up in his van, got out and walked around the site for about 5 minutes.

''Well...you're right'' he said, all surprised..''it's not here!''

Here he is;