How many loose cubic metres does a solid cubic metre make?

[doobin]

Been doing some research:

 

Roni McDonald reckons:

 

"why don't you all read a "code of practice for fuel wood merchants" published by the Forestry Commission and Timber Growers UK.

1m3 solid wood = approx 1 ton, split and loosely stacked, ie thrown, =1.8m3, ie 55% wood and 45% air. "

 

On the other hand, JayVee says:

 

"1 SOLID m3 = 1.54 STACKED m3 = 2.5 LOOSE m3"

 

So who's closest to the money? Theres quite a difference between 1.8m3 and 2.5m3

[Stephen Blair]

this is like the time machine theories, think to hard about it and you will go mad, if you have the scientific brain to work it out, dont waste your time and effort keeping warm splitting logs for not very much profit if any at all:001_rolleyes:

[slasherscot]

best way to do it..is to work it out urself and then u will sure

 

buy a top diameter log table......FC field book 1 is excellent

 

 

beech and oak when green is almost cubic metre to 1 cubic tonne

 

 

easiest way is to take some beech/oak of the same length, measure their top diameters (small end) cross check in table, add up and use 1 cubic metre, splitted it and bag it.

 

hope that helps

[Roni Macdonald]

I did post a copy of the document produced by the forestry commission. They produced the figures. I assumed they had done the ground work.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Its not a problem anyway as a solid cubic metre would be twice the price of a loose cubic metre, so no-one looses out anyway

[andyhudds]

I just tell my customers they get a level load of logs on a hilux single cab all hardwood seasoned £90 none of this weight or cubic crap

[Dean Lofthouse]

I just tell my customers they get a level load of logs on a hilux single cab all hardwood seasoned £90 none of this weight or cubic crap

 

I do the same with the landrover back Andy...but they then ask "well how many logs is that".

 

What I did one day was to fill bulk bags level, then empty into the back of the landrover. It turned out that my landy holds exactly three 85cm square bulk bags.

 

Everyone knows what a builders bag looks like, so now when they ask, it's easy to explain

[andyhudds]

yes mine holds just over 2 builders bags so i tell them the same nearly sold out already done 35 loads lots of new customers with shiney new stoves

[Kev Stephenson]

I've got 80cm cube bags which work out at 0.512 cubic meters, the back of my landie measures at 1.98 cubic meters as a level load.

 

A full load works out at about 40 logs short of 4 bags.

[Billy]

By trying to give the customer an accurate volume in a number surely we are just hurting ourselves? half the time they don't know what acubic meter or a 'ton' of logslooks like anyway so its all fantasy for them really. seems far easier to say you get a bag like this full or 'the back of my transit up to the tail gate' for £££. simple. Why do we need to put a number to it, its not accurate half the time anyway.