Volume on an artic

[Dave177]

Iv read a few posts about this allready and got myself thoroughly confused!!

I have been offered an artic load of seasoned cord at £50 per meter delivered(so weight will be irrelevant as the lorry will be full)

 

how many meters of wood (not logs) should I be looking at getting?

Just trying to work out costs etc

 

Thanks

[dickie]

Anywhere between 26 and 29 cubic meters

[mendiplogs]

Iv read a few posts about this allready and got myself thoroughly confused!!

I have been offered an artic load of seasoned cord at £50 per meter delivered(so weight will be irrelevant as the lorry will be full)

 

how many meters of wood (not logs) should I be looking at getting?

Just trying to work out costs etc

 

Thanks

 

HI DAVE nicks your man on cord on here jon

[nick channer]

depends.. what length is cord and how many bays... 3x3.4m bays on mine is 26

[slack ma girdle]

Round wood will not season in the round if it has been stored outside.

Ask the person you are buying the timber from to go through the maths at how they have worked it out.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Round wood will not season in the round if it has been stored outside.

Ask the person you are buying the timber from to go through the maths at how they have worked it out.

 

Please can you tell me why an 8 wheeler load of ash and cherry that is seasoned in the round ive been cutting it today and its down to 22%mc between 4/ 14 inch i am leaving the rest in cord and cutting when ive run out as this was suppose to be next years. I will say the harvester ripped most of the bark off the small stuff.

[slack ma girdle]

Please can you tell me why an 8 wheeler load of ash and cherry that is seasoned in the round ive been cutting it today and its down to 22%mc between 4/ 14 inch i am leaving the rest in cord and cutting when ive run out as this was suppose to be next years. I will say the harvester ripped most of the bark off the small stuff.

 

Just going by the ash and elm that i have been cutting and splitting, that was felled last October, moisture content 35 %. Logs have been stored off the ground with the tarp to keep the worst of the weather out.

 

That be why.

[muldonach]

Iv read a few posts about this allready and got myself thoroughly confused!!

I have been offered an artic load of seasoned cord at £50 per meter delivered(so weight will be irrelevant as the lorry will be full)

 

how many meters of wood (not logs) should I be looking at getting?

Just trying to work out costs etc

 

Thanks

 

The volume you get on the artic (or anything else) can be calculated by:-

 

L x B x H x F x N

 

where

 

L = length of logs

B = Breadth of stack

H = Height of stack

F = stowage factor which is highly variable and depends on the taper and straightness of the timber and the skill of the crane operator it will be approx 0.5

N = number of bays of logs of that length on the wagon etc

 

the question you have posed can be summarised as "how long do you think the piece of string I am holding is"

 

A 40 x 8 x 8 trailer will have a gross volume of 72.5 cu mt, as an approximation you should get about 29 cu mt of wood - but it could vary up or down a good deal

 

I think I would be tempted to cut a couple of logs open, check the moisture content and agree a price oer tonne either over a bridge or off the loadcell.

 

Cheers

mac