How much wood should I order?

[Wrace]

I need to order a small delivery of dry, seasoned firewood for use over the next several months. I will be storing this wood in a chain-link fence dog run with a tarp over the top.

The dog run is 6 feet long x 6 feet wide x 6 feet tall. Figure the wood will be 16" average length per piece. The wood will be stacked tightly in this run, on pallets.

How much should I order to fill up this cube? Will it hold a full cord?

Thanks
Wayne

[beenthere]

 One and 2/3 cords (1 2/3) should fill the cage nicely.

Being on pallets, that will reduce the space a bit, but stacking it tightly should make up the difference. Probably getting 2 cords will give you some extra.

Figured:
6 x 6 x 6 = 216 cu ft

divide by 128 (which is a cord 4 x 4 x 8 ) will give the 1 2/3 cord.  (if I figured it right  

[SwampDonkey]

Your only going to have room for 4 ranks of wood, so only 1.5 cords is going to fit, unless you turn your 5th rank 90 deg to the others.  

5 1/3 feet x 6 feet x 6 feet = 192 ft3/ 128 ft3 per cord = 1.5 cords ;)

[bighoss550]

i would get 2 cords because u can pile it up a bit in the middle so the rain water will run off the tarp instead of weighing it down in the middle from being level:)

[Bruce_A]

How big a tarp?

[isawlogs]

  If you are buying the wood by face cord 16 inchs long you will need 5 face cords to fill in your enclosure .

[sigidi]

Jeepers creepers this is all over this upside down fella's head ???

With us being metric I guess that's where I lose it?

[Wrace]

Thanks guys. I don't see many face cords for sale in my area, so I'll probably be buying a typical cord. Some guys are selling it by the stacked, level, full-sized truck load (their not claiming that to be a cord necessarily).

The top of this cage has a chain-link panel just like the sides, so it's "covered" but not rain proof of course. I thought I'd set a couple 2x4's across the top to peak the tarp, and help prevent puddling. I'll get whatever size tarp is a bit bigger than 6x6, drape it over the sides a bit, and zip tie it to the side panels.

Wayne

[redpowerd]

that sounds more like a chicken coop than a dog run, on second thought, i guess my border collie could get out the top of that thing.