How many wheelbarrow loads are in a cord?

[Woodpecker]

Never tried fatwood but a good handful of noodling noodles make for some good firestarter.

grandparents back in the day used chainsaw dust mixed with used motor oil, probably frowned on today.

wonder if a person compressed saw dust mixed with melted paraffin wax and formed into cubes what the profit margin would equal.

I think @Wolverine does something like that?

There’s a pretty good thread about homemade fire starters over on fhc:

https://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/homemade-fire-starters-on-the-cheap.33513/

 

[davidwyby]

Check out all the fatwood in the second clip

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[isaaccarlson]

Check out all the fatwood in the second clip

Wow! Pretty cool!

 

[hacskaroly]

grandparents back in the day used chainsaw dust mixed with used motor oil, probably frowned on today

Sounds like recycling to me, environmentalists should be happy that nothing is going to waste...

 

[Wood Doctor]

It takes me 14 wheelbarrow loads to empty my truck when its carefully packed tight with split firewood. I generally pack the truck with 70 cu ft of hardwood. Therefore, each wheelbarrow averages 5 cu ft. Divide that into 128 cu ft per full cord and I get 25.6 wheelbarrow loads per cord.

 

[Spike60]

This actually is brilliant, and a far better deal than the bundles, which have crept up to $8-$9 around here. Even in Walmart. I've always been amazed that folks even buy those small bundles. The wheelbarrow idea is a nice size/option that hardly anyone is addressing.

Some nice processing advantages for the seller. No buying and filling the bundles. No delivery either. Customer opens the hatch or trunk on their vehicle and drives away. And the buyer gets what could be described as a weekends worth of wood, which would play well in a lot of places. Both sides win.

 

[Seachaser]

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$8 around here and we are rural. And I gave away a 1/2 pickup load yesterday to my BIL to take north to my niece. Apparently it’s pretty expensive in North Georgia.

 

[IffykidMn]

This actually is brilliant, and a far better deal than the bundles, which have crept up to $8-$9 around here. Even in Walmart. I've always been amazed that folks even buy those small bundles. The wheelbarrow idea is a nice size/option that hardly anyone is addressing.

Some nice processing advantages for the seller. No buying and filling the bundles. No delivery either. Customer opens the hatch or trunk on their vehicle and drives away. And the buyer gets what could be described as a weekends worth of wood, which would play well in a lot of places. Both sides win.

short weekend and or small fires maybe.

 

[Spike60]

Yeah, definitely not a 3 day weekend. And maybe not round the clock burning in a stove. But a heaped wheelbarrow like these would go 24hrs in my stove. Those little bundles are all gone in a couple hours. Why not just burn the money itself?

The deal here is thinking outside the box. Or outside the bundle. A lot of people copy the gas station model and sell the same quantity of wood in a self serve stand at the end of their driveway. And many of them would shy away from changing anything because that wheelbarrows amount of wood brings more money in the smaller bundles. But the point is that everybody is selling the same size package for the same price. Breaking the mold and offering something different, that the gas stations and convenience stores aren't, is the genius here.

 

[Stump Shot]

I dunno, I fill it, then I burn it all up and repeat, it's kinda like...

 

[Al Smith]

My grandmother who was tough as a nail used corn cobs dunked in a coffee can full of kerosine as a fire starter . That was in times corn was picked on the cob and shelled when it was sold resulting in plenty of cobs .That tough old bird was splitting firewood at past 80 years old . Fired two stoves with wood during the day and lump Ohio coal at night . That old farm house was always nice and toasty .Went through about a ton of coal at 8-$12 a ton ,the wood was free because I cut a lot of it for her as a teenager with a Mac 250 that was brand new at that time .< that shows my age .

 

[IffykidMn]

My grandmother who was tough as a nail used corn cobs dunked in a coffee can full of kerosine as a fire starter . That was in times corn was picked on the cob and shelled when it was sold resulting in plenty of cobs .That tough old bird was splitting firewood at past 80 years old . Fired two stoves with wood during the day and lump Ohio coal at night . That old farm house was always nice and toasty .Went through about a ton of coal at 8-$12 a ton ,the wood was free because I cut a lot of it for her as a teenager with a Mac 250 that was brand new at that time .< that shows my age .

Almost had me rolling on the ground until I got to the part about using them as firestarter.

 

[Al Smith]

Well tough as she was she didn't use cobs in the outhouse .That was for the Sears and Roebuck catalog but not the shiny pages .

 

[Wilhelm]

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grandparents back in the day used chainsaw dust mixed with used motor oil, probably frowned on today.

wonder if a person compressed saw dust mixed with melted paraffin wax and formed into cubes what the profit margin would equal.

I heard of kindergarten kids making and selling firestarters out of wood noodles or straw pressed into egg boxes and doused in leftover candle wax.

I tried it and it works, I just can't be bothered messing with it.

A coworker of mine utilizes all his wood chips from cutting his own firewood logs by mixing them with shredded water doused newspapers (the non shiny type) and manually pressing the mash into cylindrical shaped bricks in a steel pipe.
By winter those dry out and he burns them alongside his normal firewood.
The shredded water diluted newspapers act as glue.
He admits it is time consuming, but says he is in no rush and has all summer.

Firewood is huge grey area business in Croatia.
Many buy logs, process them and then sell fully processed firewood.

 

[Wood Doctor]

My truckloads of firewood leave behind all sort of chips and bark in the bed after I unload it. I sweep those up and save them in a shopping bag or a small tote rather than blow them away. Those leftover scraps make good fire starters when rolled up in a newspaper. The kindling loves them.

BTW, it takes me 14 wheelbarrow loads of logs to fill the truck mounded up and two truckloads stacked will make a cord. That means about 28 wheelbarrows of logs will produce a full stacked cord. Mine is a construction-grade wheelbarrow. Size of wheelbarrow makes a difference.