What is a cord of wood?
# I was interested in the article written by Pamela Rogers on the dimensions of a cord of wood, which she says is 3.6 cubic metres. This may be correct, but to say that a "heap of wood thrown haphazardly into a pile of this dimension", is quite misleading. Wood to be measured must be stacked evenly and not thrown into a rough heap. There is a vast difference between a stacked heap and one thrown together roughly. The former heap has a much greater quantity. A neatly stacked cord of wood in old measurement would be eight feet long by four feet high and four feet wide. I would never purchase wood from Pamela Rogers!
J P Sommerville
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 581, 11 April 1995, Page 4
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124What is a cord of wood? Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 581, 11 April 1995, Page 4
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