artic load = m3 ?

[nick channer]

is a truck and drag a open sided artic trailer with metal posts . and 4 timber holding sections?

 

a lorry and drag will be longer than an artic trailer... i'm guessing you;d get 3 bays of 2.4m on lorry and 2 bays on the drag wheras you only get 4 bays of 2,4m's on an artic trailer...

[muldonach]

[url=http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/forestry-woodland-management/34502-timber-stack-volume-quibbles.html][/url]

My pal reckoned a truck and drag as a box would work out as 80m3, then loose 20% for air gaps,etc would leave you with 64m3. Don't know how accurate this is though.

 

20% broken stowage would seem very optimistic:-

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/forestry-woodland-management/34502-timber-stack-volume-quibbles.html

 

See post #8 in that thread for beech - and looks about right to me

[Clada]

Brewpup, maybe you could have a go at measuring it yourself using this manual. It seems that you can even calculate the conversion factor.

 

Stack Measurement: http://www.coford.ie/media/coford/content/publications/projectreports/TimberMeasurementManual.pdf

 

See Chapter 5, page 32 (or 38 )

[firewood]

I find an a full artic of softwood (nice straight lengths) will make 20 x 2.5m3 loads I.e. 50m3.

 

Hardwood is more problematic as it is more twisty so more air in the load. However i've found birch you get 45m3, beech or ash more like 40 to 45m3.

 

http://www.kinnoirwoodfuel.co.uk

[nick channer]

i disagree... i.ve always found i get around 35 1.5cm3 loads from an artic load [26tons] green beech... and that load isnt full... i took full load seasoned birch/alder/oak to guy on here few weeks ago and he's half way through for 25cm3 at moment...

[Pedroski]

Oi Nick, sort you cm3 and m3 out. There's no way I'd buy a 1cm3 bag of logs off ya, but a 1m3 bag would be fine

[NI Tree]

nick i liter is a 1 cm^3 and a m^3 is 1000cm^3 lol be care what you ask for lol

[Pedroski]

nick i liter is a 1 cm^3 and a m^3 is 1000cm^3 lol be care what you ask for lol

 

Are you kidding?

[NI Tree]

ha nick probably nows any way and envery one knows what he ment but his volume would estamatin was out by a factor of 1000 by puting cm3 not m3 lol if you falow standard pratice lol of si units,

 

Ps it cost people thounsonds of pounds for very simple mistakes like this, and be dangerous at times too, that why it hapend to nassa once i and cost them millions to fix lol