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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A cord being 4’ deep, 4’ high and 8’ long only works if you are making 3 rows of 16” lengths (3 x 16” = 48”). My stove, a Morso 3610, can take up to a 24” log, but 22 is easier to get into the stove, so I instructed my wood cutter to cut them 22” long. So I did a calculation, that says: a cord is 128 cu. Feet. In cubic inches that = 221,184. So, if I have 2 rows of 22” logs, that changes the dimensions of my stack a little bit. So, if I divide 221,184 by 44” (2 rows of 22” logs) by 48” I get 104.73” which is about 8.75 feet long, to get a full cord. Or, it could be 8 ft long and 52.36” tall. Of course the guy cutting my wood didn’t get the math part of this at all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers! Kathy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sacie Lambertson<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 27, 2010 6:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Wood by the pound.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>When it's icy out, the wind is blowing and you haven't convinced yourself of the best system to order your wood (whether to take it from this stack or that, leaving the wood under cover until later when it snows etc) measuring sometimes takes a back seat. I've already messed it up for this year, but last, the only year I was pretty sure what was burned, it was of the full cord sort, a mixture of split and not-split.<br><br>Obviously good to define the term 'cord'. I didn't know different measurements are used. Sacie<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Doug Fields <<a href="mailto:dfields@ceas.coop">dfields@ceas.coop</a>> wrote:</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i>Just wondering if everyone means the same thing by a "cord" of wood. </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>