Well it seems the only constant here is everyone's definition of a cord,(4x4x8). Here in the central part of Kentucky, a rick used to be a half cord. In the 60's and early 70's my family cut stave's from white oak for whiskey barrels. I recall them having to be at least 50" in length and were bought by the cord at $55-65. I would work up the tree tops in 20-24" pieces for firewood. So by my measurement a "rick" was 2'x4'x8'. But once better wood stoves started coming on the market very few would handle 24" pieces of wood. Most of the firewood I cut and sell now is 16"-18" because that's what the customer asks for account of the stove size....it's still the same amount of cuts whether your cutting 16'" pieces or 24" pieces. I sell unsplit wood for $25 a "rick". At my farm a "rick" is equal to three bobcat loads stacked in the bucket. Also I've been informed that in "KENTUCKY" you can no longer move firewood from one county to another, in other words it can only be burned in the county where it was cut....this is supposedly to slow the spread of the emerald ash bore.