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jkmicronix
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 Posted: May 10 2008 Post subject: would you buy this wood? |
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a local guy has cherry and hickory logs, cut about a week ago, different sizes and wants 60-70 bucks for a rick delivered.
how long would I have to let the logs dry? is there a way to speed up the process? what about just putting the wood in my main chamber and building a charcoal fire in the side fire box? |
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BufordCityDawg
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| Posted: May 11 2008 Post subject: Re: would you buy this wood? |
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| jkmicronix wrote: | a local guy has cherry and hickory logs, cut about a week ago, different sizes and wants 60-70 bucks for a rick delivered.
how long would I have to let the logs dry? is there a way to speed up the process? what about just putting the wood in my main chamber and building a charcoal fire in the side fire box? |
Logs as in not split? Hope you have a good axe and a lot of time on your hands. I've just about decided that it is worth the cost to have them split it for me. Several people have listed ways to 'quick dry' wood. Anything from covering it in a white plastic sheet and keeping it in the sun to doing a kiln drying process. I've got some green apple wood that I was considering putting in my smoker after I was finished to help it along, so I'm interested in if anyone has tried it.
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Harry Nutczak
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| Posted: May 11 2008 Post subject: |
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what are the dimensions of a rick?
I am guessing 4'x8'x16" lengths, if so that would be 1/3rd of a full cord
and that seems awfully pricy for un-split green wood.
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Pointerman
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| Posted: May 23 2008 Post subject: Well |
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A rick is a term that I only heard when I got to Kansas never heard it before except at a measure of corn. It is 1/4 a cord.
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stinkpickle
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| Make sure you find out what his idea of a "rick" is. Around here, a rick is 1/3 of a cord. It's sometimes called a "face cord" instead. Prices vary widely so that may actually be cheap OR expensive, but I'm sure with gas prices these days, getting wood "delivered" is gonna cost more this year. Either way, I'd split it and let it sit for a year before I did any cooking with it. |
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Pointerman
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| Posted: May 26 2008 Post subject: Hey |
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Here is a definition....
A rick, rack or face cord is only a part of a cord of wood. (A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet)
A rick or rack is the amount of firewood stacked by 4' by 8' by one row of the length of the stick.
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A stack of hay, straw, or firewood, cross-stacked to allow air to circulate. This permits rapid drying, or in the case of wood, rapid burning. A rick of wood is sometimes heated in an oxygen-free environment to produce charcoal.
It is used a lot in the midwest due to the fact that there were a lot of different things used as heating fuel, corn cobs, tightly bound straw etc...
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