Weight Of Hardwood Logs

Make use of our online log cord weight calculator to calculate the weight of different types of wood.

Weight of hardwood logs.

Hardwood logs come from broadleaf woodland. Area volume volume area weight furniture edge bandings length. Information from the u s. Softwood woods that come from gymnosperms mostly conifers plants.

Department of the interior national park service sheet rope knots and climbing. Log weight table and mbf conversion factors for mixed hardwoods. Water content in wood. Hardwood logs or softwood logs.

For the purposes of firewood hardwoods are most commonly oak ash elm beech birch sycamore aspen cherry and alder. Log volume calculator čsn 48 0008 volume weight weight volume standing tree volume. After you have the density and the volume multiply them together to find the total weight. To ton conversion especially among hardwood species.

Hardwood maple red scarlet soft water acer rubrum 34 64 hardwood maple silver acer saccharinum 31 68 hardwood maple sugar acer saccharum 40 57 hardwood buckeye yellow sweet aesculus octandra 25 143 hardwood ailanthus tree of heaven ailanthus altissima 33 74 hardwood alder white rhombie leaf alnus rhombifolia 27 1 99 hardwood. Hardwoods burn longer and produce nice coals to keep the fire going as new logs are added and those coals produce a steady heat. Click here to access the estimated log weight calculator. Log diameter has a particularly large influence because log rules often underestimate lumber yields from small logs.

Weight of a one foot section based on average diameter. For example 1 000 the average value. Squared timber cutout sawdust ratio. A green log weight chart shall be available to the crew 1 foot length diameter weight per cubic ft.

Density of water 62 4 lb ft 3 1000 kg m 3. Enter the number of logs that are the size specified above. Scaling diameter inches average hardwood log weights tons. Mathematically a cord is the amount of wood that is well arranged occupying the volume of 128 cubic feet.

The assumed moisture content mc of the log s is 75. The density or hardness of wood varies by species and the value is necessary to approximate the weight of lumber by volume. For questions about calculating estimated log weight we suggest that you post your question at our sawing and drying forum. 1 lb ft 3 16 018 kg m 3 0 016 g cm 3 0 00926 oz in 3 2 57 oz gal imperial 2 139 oz gal u s 0 0005787 lb in 3 27 lb yd 3 0 161 lb gal imperial 0 134 lb gal u s 0 0121 ton yd 3.

Find weight of wood. All moisture contents based on wet wood basis. Dry weight at 12 percent moisture content. Green weight at 40 to 60 percent moisture content.

Density of wood species. Of course there are many more hardwood species. Do not enter decimals or fractions. Volume weight size dimensions volume.