On 2010/01/26, at 05:15 , James R. Frysinger wrote:
The old French unit, stere, was used to mean a cubic meter. There
are about 3.6 m3 (steres) in a cord. Of course, measuring wood by
the cubic meter would suffer the same stacking effects that
measuring it by the cord would.
Dear Jim and All,
Here, in Australia, firewood is supplied in cubic metres. The tipping
trucks are divided into several 1 cubic metre compartments about 1
metre high and the width of the truck (about 2400 millimetres), so
each compartment is only about 417 mm along the length of the truck.
If a customer wants only 1 cubic metre then only those gates are
released before the load is tipped. For three cubic metres two more
compartments are released.
The last time I bought two cubic metres of wood I was struck by the
very sloppy stacking into the compartments – reducing the amount of
wood I actually received. My suspicion is that the truck on returning
to the wood yard is simply loaded with something like a front-end
loader and no actual stacking takes place at all.
It is a simple-to-operate method of selling wood but it is not as fair
to the customers.
Cheers,
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