What on earth is cordwood?

[Andy Collins]

When I first started out in Treework, many years before I relied on making a living from it, we used the term cordwood. We were trained back then by a chap from the FC, he used the term cordwood, he was retired and late 60s/early 70s. In my NDG James first edition of the Foresters Companion (1955) I quote "Firewood may be sold as cordwood, ie wood cut to lengths so as to form a heap or cord 8'x4'x4'..........if not sold as cordwood, firewood is cut into logs and sold by the ton" There is also a page (112) dedicated to the calculations for measuring volume, and weight of cordwood.

So IMO, it is a recognised and legitimate term, and widely used.

[Graham]

Cordwood was a word used by all the old fallers I've known in the past. All the lop and top was sorted and firewood was stacked as cord.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I think you will find it has something to do with a popular fish .....

 

hahaha:thumbup:

 

I think war is looming; sabre rattling atleast

 

Maybe it's regional. We got bollocked for calling it the C word.

[openspaceman]

Cordwood was a word used by all the old fallers I've known in the past. All the lop and top was sorted and firewood was stacked as cord.

 

Same here.

 

Sometimes we would fell and take the cordwood as payment.

[gensetsteve]

Cordwood is the same value as gold ingots just in wood form. Its a method of payment you cant actually make money out of.

[csservices]

Stakes

Posts

Bar

Rails (old term)

Chip / Pulp / Firewood

Palllet wood

Log (sawlog / mini-log)

 

all roundwood...

 

now discuss shortwood

 

Shortwood is any wood that fits in the back of the transit, that is not rings or bar lengths

[Stubby]

The big stack I call round wood if it is then cut to make an 8x4x4 stack it becomes cord wood . Any good ?

[muldonach]

Agree, at least we don't use the term 'Bucking Timber' of which I have never really understood?

 

I uses it quite frequently - mainly when I slip or trip on it!

[Gollum]

a cord measurement of volume.

can you buy kindling by the bushel or half bushel.