On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 04:08:46 -0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
wrote:

notbob wrote in :

I usta live in CA, where a cord of oak went fer about $200. I now
live in Colorado and CO has no native hardwoods. Pine and Aspen go
fer about $200 cord, but a buddy sez all the "cords", hereabouts, are
"face cords". ????

A cord is a stack of wood 4' high by 8' long by 4' wide, the 4' width being usually either three
16" logs or two 24" logs.
"cordwood" is generally either less than 10 inches in diameter or
split so it packs together nice and tight. No pieces longer than 4
feet, stacked crosswize. 128 cubic feet of wood.. That's 41 feet of 2
foot log, where a stack of 4 8 footers is only 36 feet and 113 cu ft
or .88 cord.

A "face cord" is a stack of wood 4' high by 8' long by one log wide, however long the logs
happen to be cut. This is usually about 16", but I've seen them as short as 12".

"Officially" there are 3 face cords to a bush cord - a face cord being
16 inches deep.(no "legal" deffinition for a Face Cord in Canada or
the USA, "officially")

There is also an unofficial "stove cord" which is 1/4 bush cord - with
all the sticks 12 inches long, and the "long cord" which is about 150
cubic feet and what some guys will sell as a "cord" to be sure the
customer can't possibly bitch about being short changed.and works out
to a rounded long-bed pickup truck load with 2 foot racks (and
generally well over 2 tons of "green" hardwood or 1 1/2 tons of "dry"

I never heard of a "face cord" and wiki defines them as, roughly,
one-third of a full cord of wood. $180-$200 fer a third of a cord!?
.....of pine!!!??? I'm used to my buddy being dead wrong about many
things. What say the Western hommies?

This Midwestern homie says your buddy is right on the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit)

Where do you live and what are you paying ....for what unit of
measure?

Can't help you there -- I've had enough of my own trees come down that I haven't had to buy
firewood for at least 15 years. I have no idea what it's going for now.