Why not sell a cube of wood? Novel idea!

[Albedo]

A cube of firewood:

 

The client does not care about the size of a loosely stacked pile of wood, he wants a cubic metre of wood when stacked in his pile. This to me is a fair assessment of what a cube of firewood should be.

 

A good way to deliver this is to stack a pile of split wood in your yard until it measures 1 cubic metre square. Throw this wood into your truck and draw a line with a marker pen around your pile. Or throw it into builders bags and see if it is 1.5 bags or whatever.

 

What I did with my LDV is draw a line up the greedy boards and mark of a height which worked out as a cubic metre. I stack the front row neatly and infill behind to the mark I made when I threw in a measured cube.

 

Then for ever more fill to the line in the safe knowledge that your customer is getting 1 cubic metre of wood .

 

If I bought wood off you guys by the cubic metre and didn’t get a cubic metre when stacked, I would not come back for more.

 

There are variations on this but you can work it out for yourself – fill your vessel, be it a truck or a bag, then stack that amount and measure it.

 

If all of you firewood people devised a similar way of ensuring that when your clients buy a cube of wood, they actually get a cube of wood there would be no need for any more ‘size of builders bag’ threads on arbtalk…… what a happy thought:001_smile:

[Stephen Blair]

what if they didnt want a cube of wood?

[Mark Bolam]

What if you had the brains to tell your customers that the logs they get will fill a certain specified dimension when thrown in loose?

 

Hope there were no gaps when you stacked your neat little cubic metre.

[Albedo]

How much sugar is there in a pound of sugar?

[Chris Sheppard]

How much sugar is there in a pound of sugar?

 

A pound is a unit of weight whereas a cubic metre is a unit of volume

[ecolojim]

perhaps we oughta use cords and face cords, where a volume of air gap is implied in the measurement

[Carl]

How much sugar is there in a pound of sugar?

 

0.454kg

[Chris Gagen]

and don't you just hate it when you buy 25 tonnes of firewood in the spring only for there to be just 20 tonnes left in the same mass come the autumn?

 

that's just the way it is, some things will never change, doo-be-doo-be-doo:flute:

[Highland Forestry]

When you stack split wood up to make exactly one cubic metre... you still don't have a cubic metre because it is full of air gaps..

 

You'd need to use the same kind mensuration as foresters do when measuring stacks of timber and allow an extra 15-20% ontop of your cubic metre to get a physical cubic metre.

 

Does this mean you have been selling your customers short by 15-20% ''for ever more'' ???

[Mark Bolam]

That's what I was getting at Matt. As long as you don't tell your customers they are getting a cubic metre of 'logs', there is no problem.

 

I wasn't having a dig Paul. It's certainly better than quoting a price for 'a load'!

 

We cut an exact cubic metre (square) from an Oak butt once. It occupied frighteningly little space! (Even when you think you know what a m3 looks like).