Sun
State Tree keeps plenty of firewood in stock for heating homes and
providing restaurants seasoned hardwood for cooking. All of our firewood
is cut here locally at our business and deliveries or pick-up is available
7 days a week.
Call
us for pricing and delivery charges
407-331-8905
How to buy firewood
Most
wood is purchased by the cord although nationally, there is a trend
toward selling firewood by weight and by small bundle. However, a
cord is the accepted unit of measure.
A standard
cord is 128 cubic feet (Figure 1). This may be 4 feet by 4 feet by
8 feet or 4 feet by 2 feet by 16 feet or any other combination yielding
128 cubic feet. A measure of one-third or one-half cord commonly has
been called a "rick," although a rick is really only a pile of wood.
Figure
1
Standard
cord of wood
Actual
volume of solid wood in a cord varies from 75 cubic feet for small,
crooked sticks, increasing with the size and straightness of the sticks
up to about 100 cubic feet.
Average
for this Florida is about 80 cubic feet. The shrinkage in volume between
a cord of green wood and a cord of seasoned wood is about 5 percent.
Humidity plays an important factor.
Another
common measure used in selling firewood is the "face cord" (4 feet
by 8 feet by 24 inches) (Figure 2). The length may vary from 18 inches
to 24 inches. "Rank" and "fireplace cord" also are used to describe
the amount of wood in a face cord.
Figure 2
Fireplace
bundle (fraction of cord). Example:
1/64
cord is 1 foot by 1 foot by 2 feet
Small
Truck is close to 1/4 of a cord 2 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot. The bed
is actually 6 feet long but we do not allow our delivery personnel
to overload our vehicles.
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