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Firewood Stack Calculator

A full cord is a fixed volume — 128 cubic feet, stacked. A face cord is not: it is one piece length deep, whatever that length happens to be, which is how the same word covers a third of a cord and two thirds of one. Measure the pile, put the numbers in, and see what you actually have in cords, steres and solid wood — and how many rounds off the log went into building it.

Units

End to end, along the face of the pile.

Ground to the top of the wood, not the top of the cribbing.

What you buck the rounds to — this is the depth of one row.

One row is a single piece-length deep.

How it is stacked

hand-split, laid by eye — the way most woodpiles end up78% wood, the rest air.

Add it to see how many rounds off the log this pile represents.