whack of firewood

[Harv]

Love your rig, your pictures and your posts, Woody, but I just gotta get my terminology straight here. It took me long enough to determine exactly how much wood is in a cord, but I've never heard of a whack.

Since my dictionaries don't have a wood-oriented definition either, I'm guessing it simply refers to a load of logs that you just "whacked"?

Or is it more specific than that?

Trivia/etymology fans want to know.

 

[DFB]

<font color=blue>but I just gotta get my terminology straight here.It took me long enough to determine exactly how much wood is in a cord, but I've never heard of a whack. </font color=blue>

There's also a chord too. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Harv, I'm not familiar with a whack of logs either, but does your dictionary have some of the other more common logging vernacular such as a jackpot, or a barberchair. Or maybe a jammer or a grabinski. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif

Got a link here for a web page for words associated with logging, transportation, forest engineering and silviculture.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.cocc.edu/logging/intropg.html>http://www.cocc.edu/logging/intropg.html</A>

DFB

 

[Thomas]

I heard that said when I was a tadpole,and I think it means..Whack of firewood= cut,cut pile or load,laid down,like whack something off.

 

[looch]

I use whack interchangeably with a whole bunch, a ton of, a whole mess of, and such. I'm unaware of any specific meaning it may have in the forestry business.

 

[woodmills1]

whack started to be used over on the forestry forum to describe a bunch, a pile, a whole mess of, cut logs. as in i really whacked me some logs today. i wish i could rememeber who started it to give credit. i just took to using it.

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>There's also a chord too</font color=blue>

Uhhh... yeah, but aren't we talking about stacks of wood here? (I must be missing your point. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif)

Good web page glossary you referenced. I bookmarked it for future use. Still leaves us to haggle over what a "whack" is, though. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[DFB]

Oops, bad joke on my part Harv. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif In the logging glossary same pronunciation but different terminology. That's all.

My apologies

DFB

 

[JimME]

James,

Just out of curiosity, what type of chainsaw(s) do you run?

You have a very nice setup there. I'd like to do some lumbermaking in the not too distant future myself.

Jim

 

[shade2u2]

I need that setup for this mess... (pic) /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[shade2u2]

The pic may not be to clear... I have a couple dozen trees down that I need to cut & split. We are going to build here in May...