What is weight of softwood timber?

Answer 1

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With a cord and fractional parts of a cord or cubic meter (AKA a stere).

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Firewood is traditionally measured by the "cord".

A full cord is a pile of stacked wood 4' x 4' x 8' (128 cu. ft.)

A face cord is 4' x 1.5' x 8' (42 cu. ft.)

Packages of wood at about 1 cubic foot are available at campgrounds and service stations

Answer 2

The weight of green good quality firewood is about 800 lbs to 1200 lbs per cord

Weight of some what seasoned good quality fire wood is about 650 to lbs to 1000 lbs per cord

Factors that vary range

1. wood density Wood density typically varies from 40 to 60 to 60 lbs per cubic foot, unseasoned

most fair fire wood green is at least 55 lbs per cubic foot

2 Water content

Typically good seasoned wood will have 15 to 20 percent moisture, and fresh green wood in summer can be 50% weight. (Getting to 15 percent or less requires a good cover as well as being elevated at least 4 inches above the cool ground (allows ventilation) or over a non pervious, not wet surface, and exposure to the sun for a few hours a day).

3. How it is stacked

A single perfectly round log in a square container that is 4 foot long and 4 feet in diameter would be 1/2 a cord. The circle part of the 1/2 cord box would be full, but the space between the walls of the box and the log would be void. This 1/2 cord of a perfect log is pi/4 , about 79 percent solid.

If you were to put smaller logs in the spaces around the log you could improve on this, but in practice more than an 80 percent solid cord of wood is extremely hard to achieve. My best experience for wood cut 2 foot long, stacked with a mix of sizes with various shapes, is only 60 percent solid. This also helps the wood dry out by providing ventilation

Green good quality weight calculation

55 lbs/cubic foot x 256 cubic feet x 60 percent stacking efficiency = 8,848, or about 900 lbs

If somewhat seasoned, 20 percent of this weight can be lost

1 cord of somewhat seasoned good quality fire wood

700 lbs per cord

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The weight of softwood timber can vary depending on its species, moisture content, and dimensions. On average, softwood timber weighs around 25-30 pounds per cubic foot.

Answer 5

approx 800-1000kg/m3