turnkey4099
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As can be seen the die hards will never give up their nebulous measures.
Not free firewood....but close
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As can be seen the die hards will never give up their nebulous measures.
Why I never learned to "cook."
"Add a pinch of salt to a scoop of flour, mix, then add a dash of pepper."
Bruce
One old recipe I saw started with "fifty cents of chicken"... Now we call that "an egg."
Zerk
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If a 1/3 of a cord is not defined measure how the heck is full cord defined?
It blows my mind we are having this discussion. I guess schools really are that bad in some areas. If you can't sell a 1/3 of a cord, then how can you sell 2 cords or 3?
I realize math is tough for some folks. But you could look at as 3 rows is cord, so take one and you have face cord.
48* 1/3 = 16 or 48/3= 16. If it is one whole section long, which would 24' then divide by 3 or multiple by 1/3. Use a calculator if you have to. Your phone has one.
Do you only buy milk by 1 gallon at a time? Gas by one gallon at a time? God forbid we buy beer by 12 or 6 pack. We need to outlaw fountain pop.
Buying a beverage with ice in the glass must drive you to tears.
Zerk
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Why I never learned to "cook."
"Add a pinch of salt to a scoop of flour, mix, then add a dash of pepper."
Bruce
You can buy a cook book with exact defined quanities of teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups. I am starting to think the real problem might go farther than fractions.
1/3 is not a pinch, a tad, or a shake. It is 33%, which might be tough. It is divide by 3, multipl by .33.
You can look these up in the cook books or on internet. They have charts just like metric to SAE, and such in mechanical books. You can handle metric and SAE?
You can even google scoop.
Just cause you don't know something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Lots of people can't do calculus or trig, but it exists.
Zerk
Veteran Member
This reminds me of how it used to illegal to mix drinks in, I believe Georgia. The bars would have air plane 1/5 ounce bottles. It kicked their southern butts when they were given the freedom. They had to to do classes.
If you can't handle taking salt shaker, and adding a dash of salt, you need to relax. You are not doing rocket surgery.
If you can't handle taking salt shaker, and adding a dash of salt, you need to relax. You are not doing rocket surgery.
Zerk
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1/3 is a neabulous? Do you tell the guy want three one cords?
If a fraction is to much for you, you should go to night school. You can even fake it by simply googling it.
I don't understand how 1/3 is such a conversation. Some of you are not even from regions of the country we joke about.
Zerk
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Do you think they cut firewood different lengths when the stack it for face cords or cords? If 48 *1/3 is 16. If they were to sell a cord at 4' deep, and did not stack the ends, touching each other they would have to cut them shorter than 16".
But I would think whether it is 3 rows deep, or one, they are probably cutting to around 16". Yes not using a micrometer.
But I would think whether it is 3 rows deep, or one, they are probably cutting to around 16". Yes not using a micrometer.
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How are you going to sell a cord of firewood when it’s cut 20 inches?
1 tier stacked 4 foot, 19.2 feet long
or
2 tiers stacked 4 foot high, 9.6 feet long
or
1 tier, stacked 6 feet high; 12.8 feet long
or
2 tiers, stacked 6 feet high; 6.4 feet long
It doesn't matter what length that you cut it or how you stack it; a cord of wood takes up 128 cubic feet.
My cousin paid for 8 full cords yet recieved what turned out to be an 8 "face cord" load of firewood; it was 4 feet tall, 32 feet wide... and each stick was 7.6 feet long.
