Q&A for How to Measure a Cord of Wood

A cord measures four feet high by four feet wide by eight feet long (4 ft. x 4 ft. x 8 ft.) and has a volume of 128 cubic feet. The amount of solid wood in a cord varies depending on the size of the pieces, but for firewood it averages about 85 cubic feet.

A rank (or rick) is the equivalent of about one-third of a cord.

This is 192 cubic feet, or 1.5 cords of wood, if it is tightly packed. 3x4x16 = 12x16 = 192. 192/128 = 1.5, or one and a half cord.

With a tape measure, measure the length of the stacked wood multiplied by the height of the stacked wood multiplied by the depth or width of the stacked wood. Divide that answer by 128 and that will tell you how much of a cord of wood you have.

Approximately half a cord.

A cord of wood measures 4' X 4' X 8'. That's 128 cubic feet of wood. A rick is half that amount. If you do the math, you will know.

A half-cord is 64 cubic feet, which could be measured as 4'x4'x4'.

A pulp cord of wood is the same as any cord of wood. It measures 128 cubic feet or 4x4x8. The wood itself is soft wood, which burns faster and is of less value for fire wood, because the BTUs are much less.

Your trailer's volume is 87.5 cubic feet. A cord is 128 cubic feet.

Four, because each pickup load is approximately half a cord.

Regardless of the length of the pieces, a cord is always 128 cubic feet. Three 20-inch pieces placed end to end will measure 5 ft in length. A stack that measures 5 ft by 5 ft by 5 ft is 125 cubic feet (or slightly less than a cord).

The average prices vary from state to state, county to county, and city to city. Check what's advertised in your area, add the prices together, divide by the number of different prices you entered, and that will give you the average price.

Assuming the log is fairly straight, measure its radius in feet. Square that number, then multiply by 3.14. Then multiply by the log's length in feet. That gives you the volume of the log in cubic feet.

It shouldn't make any difference if the wood is stacked "tightly" as you normally would if all layers are stacked in the same direction. Just use the HxWxL calculation as outlined above. If there are big air gaps between pieces of wood, that is more difficult to measure. You would need to figure out roughly what percentage of the stack is air gap; e.g., if your stack measures 4'x4'x8', then your total stack is 128 cubic feet, but if you are losing a third of your stack (33%) to air gap, you will only have about 82-83 cubic feet of solid wood.

Cord is a measurement of volume; not length, height or width, but all three together. A cord of wood commonly describes a volume that is four feet high by four feet wide by eight feet long. 4 x 4 x 8 = 128 cubic feet. In that configuration your cord "length" would be eight feet, but that only holds true if your height and width are four feet. If your height and width are one foot, then your cord length would be 128 feet. If your height and width are each two feet, then your cord length would be 32 feet. So in order to know the length, you also must know the height and width.

Your trailer is about 12' x 5' and is 1 foot deep. That is an area of 61.13 square feet, which works out to 61.13 cubic feet (because it's exactly one foot deep), which is about 48% of a cord. If you can put railing around it so that you can stack it double deep and overstack that slightly, then you can put a whole cord of wood on your trailer.

A cord is a measurement of volume, so to get your answer, you'd have to tightly pack as many logs as you can into into a box that measures 4' x 4' x 8', or 128 cubic feet. then take them out and count them. The next time you go to buy firewood you'd have to do it all over again, because there's no way to guarantee that the logs you are getting this time aren't different sizes than the logs you got last time. A cord is a measurement of volume, not a log count or the weight of a pile of logs.

That's a third of a cord of wood, and yes. Since a cord is a measurement of volume, then it doesn't matter if the wood is split or unsplit. 8 x 4 x 16" is one third of a cord no matter the condition of the wood in it. That said, you can get more split wood into the same volume as you can unsplit wood, so at the same price per cord, the split wood is a better value. Not only is it more wood in the same volume, it also has the labor costs of splitting the wood in it, making it much more valuable than unsplit wood.

18/12=1.5 feet 1.5x?=128/2 ?=128/(2x1.5) =128/3, =42.66feet, so dimensions are 18"x1' tall x 42.66 long

It depends on how the wood is stacked. Normally, a cord of wood is 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 8 feet long. But a stack of wood 128 feet high, 1 foot wide, and one foot long would also be a cord.

You should have multiplied 5ft x 7ft x 1.3ft = 45.5 ft. Divide that by 128 = approximately 2.53. (You have to convert the 16 inches to feet before you multiply.)

Using your dimensions 12x30/128 = 2.8 cords and the rest of this is filler.

8x8x16 inches would be 3/4 of a foot x 3/4 of a foot x 1-1/3 foot, which is about 3/4 of a cubic foot. You would need 171 of them to equal one cord. If you meant 8ftx8ftx16in, that would be 85 cubit feet, which is approximately 2/3 of a cord.

Six ft high, 8 ft long is 48 square feet of face, 17 inches long is 1.4 feet, giving you a total volume of 68 cubic feet, which is slightly more than 64 cubic feet, making it half of a cord.

Yes, 128 cubic feet is the definition of a cord of wood, whether it is end-to-end, stacked 8 ft high or 4 ft high.

Cord is a measure of wood volume, and square feet is a measure of area. You would need to specify the length and dept and the third dimension (height) to determine the volume, i.e., the number of cords A stack of wood 1 foot wide, 1 foot deep and 1 foot tall would be 1/128th of a cord. Four feet high, 24 inches deep and 16 feet long would be 128 cubic feet, which is one cord.