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Old 12-10-2009, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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I don't need to buy firewood, I've got enough downed trees on my property that all I have to do is go out there with a chainsaw and cut it up, the tree that came down yesterday is an old red oak tree that was already dead and the wood is very well seasoned and it's doing a fine job in my fireplace, even now..........Hay EB, are you getting any snow up your way? It's been snowing here since early this morning and it's still coming down,temperatures about 24°...
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Old 12-10-2009, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Where there is too much snow!
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I don't need to buy firewood, I've got enough downed trees on my property that all I have to do is go out there with a chainsaw and cut it up, the tree that came down yesterday is an old red oak tree that was already dead and the wood is very well seasoned and it's doing a fine job in my fireplace, even now..........Hay EB, are you getting any snow up your way? It's been snowing here since early this morning and it's still coming down,temperatures about 24°...
Yep! The ground is white and the it started shortly after 5am. The grass is still pokin through the snow yet, so it ain't so bad. Thats Ohio for ya, right!?
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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Yep! The ground is white and the it started shortly after 5am. The grass is still pokin through the snow yet, so it ain't so bad. Thats Ohio for ya, right!?
Yea, you're right that's Ohio, right now it's still snowing here, the roads here are covered with the snow but I can still see the grass, it's not covered with snow yet and the wind is blowing like crazy and temperature is still about 24°, yep, that's Ohio for you....
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Over the Rainbow...
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Yep! The ground is white and the it started shortly after 5am. The grass is still pokin through the snow yet, so it ain't so bad. Thats Ohio for ya, right!?

Ok good, now I don't have to send any snow that way....besides we haven't gotten any more (for the time being anyway).....
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Old 12-10-2009, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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Ok, the reason I ask is:

Until I moved to OK i'd never heard of a "rick" of wood. Wood was/is alway measured by the "Cord" everywhere I lived.
It's not just me either because a friend of mine who moved to OK, from Ca, 1-2 years before me, had a tree service in Ca. and he'd never heard of a rick either. ( now in OK we cut, split, sell and deliver firewood)

It's not just out west either. I'm originally from Mi. which you guys are border lined with.
Our family did logging up there and wood was alway measured by the cord up there. I just resently ask some people in Mi.about it and they'd never heard of a rick either.

So I was wondering if it a measurment (1/2 a cord) used just in OK.. or what.
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Old 12-10-2009, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Where there is too much snow!
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Correct if I'm wrong, but I think a rick is measured at 4' x 8' and three ricks make a cord which is 8' x 12'.
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Ok, the reason I ask is:

Until I moved to OK i'd never heard of a "rick" of wood. Wood was/is alway measured by the "Cord" everywhere I lived.
It's not just me either because a friend of mine who moved to OK, from Ca, 1-2 years before me, had a tree service in Ca. and he'd never heard of a rick either. ( now in OK we cut, split, sell and deliver firewood)

It's not just out west either. I'm originally from Mi. which you guys are border lined with.
Our family did logging up there and wood was alway measured by the cord up there. I just resently ask some people in Mi.about it and they'd never heard of a rick either.

So I was wondering if it a measurment (1/2 a cord) used just in OK.. or what.
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Old 12-10-2009, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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Correct if I'm wrong, but I think a rick is measured at 4' x 8' and three ricks make a cord which is 8' x 12'.
I don't know the exact measurement, but I know it's less than 3 ricks to make a cord.

1 rick will fit in a full sized pick-up bed.
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Old 12-10-2009, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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Well I'm originally from the state of Maryland and out in the rural regions of Maryland there's still a lot of people that use wood for heat and cooking and there are two measurements that we use in Maryland for firewood, a rick of wood is the equivalent of a 1/2 cord which is just about a pickup truck load and two ricks make a cord, which is about two pickup truck loads of wood.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:54 PM
 
Location: Where there is too much snow!
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Well I'm originally from the state of Maryland and out in the rural regions of Maryland there's still a lot of people that use wood for heat and cooking and there are two measurements that we use in Maryland for firewood, a rick of wood is the equivalent of a 1/2 cord which is just about a pickup truck load and two ricks make a cord, which is about two pickup truck loads of wood.
A cord of wool is measured at 4'Wx4'Hx8'L

Oops! I had my number and letter turned around, my bad.

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Old 12-10-2009, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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A cord of wool is measured at 4'Hx4'Lx8'W
8' wide? I don't think so, maybe logs going to the saw mill or paper mill. but not firewood.

Try 4'H 8' L and 10-15" W
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