Woodburner - Conifer

Davesnave

todayisagreatday wrote: »

Good idea, I'll perhaps get them to cut it for me into 2m lengths and sell it.

Don't forget the bit that goes in the ground. It might be safer to go for slightly more than 2m depending on the re-purposing.


I sold my 11kv power line poles to a farmer as they lay. He wanted them whole for making a pole barn.

spadoosh

Let me guess youre under 40?

2.1m is with reference to imperial measurements which tends to be used for things ike this. So its equivalent to 7ft. When you start sinking it 2ft in to the ground youve got a 5ft post which works well with fence panels and gates.

When you start sinking a 2m pole 2ft in you end up with 4ft 9" (ish) poles which youll have to !!!!!!!ize (bar stewardise is one of the best words in the english language, making it an expletive is riddiculous and to make it worse i corrected it with the stupid american spell checker knowing it was spelt wrong!) anything to get it to fit to.

Stick with 2.1m its not being pedantic.

todayisagreatday

spadoosh wrote: »

Let me guess youre under 40?

2.1m is with reference to imperial measurements which tends to be used for things ike this. So its equivalent to 7ft. When you start sinking it 2ft in to the ground youve got a 5ft post which works well with fence panels and gates.

When you start sinking a 2m pole 2ft in you end up with 4ft 9" (ish) poles which youll have to !!!!!!!ize (bar stewardise is one of the best words in the english language, making it an expletive is riddiculous and to make it worse i corrected it with the stupid american spell checker knowing it was spelt wrong!) anything to get it to fit to.

Stick with 2.1m its not being pedantic.

Haha yes I am! That's very helpful, 2.1m it is :money:

Davesnave

I'm nearly 70, but I taught metric from 1973, so I swing both ways! :rotfl:

todayisagreatday

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm nearly 70, but I taught metric from 1973, so I swing both ways! :rotfl:

It's caused many problems with my dad who has been helping me with DIY and he will give me measurements in inches or ft and I give him a blank look and ask for it in cm or mm.

Gloomendoom

todayisagreatday wrote: »

It's caused many problems with my dad who has been helping me with DIY and he will give me measurements in inches or ft and I give him a blank look and ask for it in cm or mm.

I thought most people were bilingual even today. I teach undergraduate engineering students and they don't seem to have any issues using Imperial or SI. We deliberately set them problems in Imperial or mixed units to keep them on their toes.

It helps in the real world.

Cardew

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I thought most people were bilingual even today. I teach undergraduate engineering students and they don't seem to have any issues using Imperial or SI. We deliberately set them problems in Imperial or mixed units to keep them on their toes.

It helps in the real world.

Just been looking at the original deeds(on velum) for the sale of the land for my house. The size is 1 acre, 2 rods, 15 perches and 3/4 of a perch.


Now that is the real world;)

Gloomendoom

Cardew wrote: »

Just been looking at the original deeds(on velum) for the sale of the land for my house. The size is 1 acre, 2 rods, 15 perches and 3/4 of a perch.


Now that is the real world;)

OK, so we don't go to quite those extremes. I've got deeds for my house going back to the 18th century but all appear to be written on thick paper. Cheapskates!

Dragging this almost back on topic, I bought some firewood in France a couple of years ago and it was measured in cords.

FreeBear

silverwhistle wrote: »

I've a large amount of scavenged poplar too of about the same seasoning. Have you ever burnt it before and how did you find it?

I've burnt a few bits of it at the beginning of the year. Admittedly a little too wet, but it burnt OK. Didn't last as long as some of the other logs I was burning (cherry & silver birch), but I was using it in conjunction with some smokeless coal.

Cardew

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Dragging this almost back on topic, I bought some firewood in France a couple of years ago and it was measured in cords.

A cord - or half cord - is still the standard method for purchasing firewood in the USA. I always understood it to be 4'x4'x8', but Wikipedia is more precise!

The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada.
A cord is the amount of wood that, when "racked and well stowed" (arranged so pieces are aligned, parallel, touching and compact), occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet (3.62 m3).[1] This corresponds to a well-stacked woodpile 4 feet (122 cm) high, 8 feet (244 cm) long, and 4 feet (122 cm) deep; or any other arrangement of linear measurements that yields the same volume.
The name cord probably comes from the use of a cord or string to measure it.[2]
Cord-foot was a US unit of volume for stacked firewood, four feet long, four feet wide and one foot high - equal to one eighth of a cord.[3] Symbol for the unit was cd-ft.[4]

It is still a better system than UK where a 'trailer load' or '1 ton bag' seems to be standard.


So what dimensions has a 'French cord'?


P.S.
To get right back on track, the vast majority of firewood sold in the USA and Canada(particularly) is conifer.