Most efficient way to burn wood

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This leads to an interesting (to me anyway) new thread I'm going to start.

 

[Egon]

Canada has adopted the metric system many decades ago_ the '70s ?_ and its still not fully integrated. For most folks both young and old it goes like this> I am 6ft 2 inches tall and weigh 230 pounds, I commute 30 km to work on a car that does 8 liters per 100 kms , but consumes less when the temp goes above 20 celsius. I live on 40 acres hence I pay taxes on 13 hectares .....you get the picture ?

The younger folks think metric. Just older ones that still live in two nomenclatures.

 

[QueBota]

About 960, would be a good deal, eliminates all the voids.

I looked at an old university textbook the other day. Like many of the better ones nearly 50 years ago it was American. In the introduction the authors said all examples were in the metric system because that's the way things were going. Is there still no sign of America joining the rest of the world in the metric system? All volume is measured in litres or fractions thereof. One cubic metre is 1000 litres.
You seem to have ricks, cords, pecks, bushels, pints, quarts, gallons, cupfuls, various spoonfuls in cooking and I don't know what else to measure volume. How many gallons are in a cord for instance?

 

[MossRoad]

It is the same thing as a rick.

Or a rank.

 

[MossRoad]

I looked at an old university textbook the other day. Like many of the better ones nearly 50 years ago it was American. In the introduction the authors said all examples were in the metric system because that's the way things were going. Is there still no sign of America joining the rest of the world in the metric system? All volume is measured in litres or fractions thereof. One cubic metre is 1000 litres.
You seem to have ricks, cords, pecks, bushels, pints, quarts, gallons, cupfuls, various spoonfuls in cooking and I don't know what else to measure volume. How many gallons are in a cord for instance?

Is that a cord of feathers or a cord of lead?

 

[94BULLITT]

Is a cord only used to measure wood?

 

[clemsonfor]

Is a cord only used to measure wood?

Yes

The tre deffinition is used to measure round logs or really anysort of rough wood, like firewood or logs. Not used for finished boards as it assumes air space.

Like anything i guess you could use it to measure unusual things that you want to be funny like lead or feathers. But just like we dont measure firewood by the bushel or peck.

 

[Rustyiron]

I think I remember hearing that a cord of green wood contains about 100 galons of water!

 

[dave1949]

I think I remember hearing that a cord of green wood contains about 100 galons of water!

Log Cord Weight Calculator

A cord of green wood can weigh over two tons and 50% of that can be water. Since "a pint's a pound the world around" (try that in metric :laughing there could be 2000 lbs (one ton) of water in that green cord.

2000 pints / 8 pints per gallon = 250 gallons

 

[Bob77064]

I think I remember hearing that a cord of green wood contains about 100 galons of water!

Interesting, that water would weigh over 830 lbs.