<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>I grew up in New Brunswick, Canada where a face cord is 1/3 of a full cord. I cut pulp for summer jobs between university years; living in a tent and sharing a camp with a pair of draft horses. A cord of firewood or pulp is the same volume of wood: 4 X 4 X 8 but we usually stacked the pulp logs 8' length while firewood was bucked down to 4' lengths, making a different shaped stack. </DIV>
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<DIV>"Face cord" is a measure used to sell split and seasoned firewood to city slickers who did not want to buck up and split their own wood. A face cord is 16" X 4' x 8' (i.e. 1/3 of a cord). The 16" length is suitable for a fireplace, heating and a cook stove. Face cords were sold as valued added, retail product and so were more expensive than simple division of 1/3rd of the price of a full cord.</DIV>
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<DIV>I live in Ontario and have a camp in western NY now. Most folks here call a face cord a "cord" and here it is assumed that when you refer to to a cord, you mean 1/3 of a cord.</DIV>
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<DIV> I don't know how many pellets there are in a face cord :-)</DIV></div><br></body></html>