Volume Change Unsplit to Split

[WarmGuy]

I measured the front surface area of a small pile of firewood both before and after I split it. The picture shows the wood after being split.

The area before splitting was 11.67 Sq Ft.

The area after splitting was 11.19 Sq Ft.

 

[restorer]

I measured the front surface area of a small pile of firewood both before and after I split it. The picture shows the wood after being split.

The area before splitting was 11.67 Sq Ft.

The area after splitting was 11.19 Sq Ft.

Splitting and restacking can reduce the voids, or spaces between the wood. If you tight stack like you did, it will be smaller. If it's green wood, you need air to circulate to speed the drying. In that case, you want to loose stack.

 

[Corie]

Yeah I'm with rich. Splitting wood simply allows you to have less air voids in a given volume of stacked wood. Are ya feeling adventurous enough to measure the change in surface area of the split versus unsplit logs

 

[heydan]

I read that a cord is 128 cubic feet of wood when tightly stacked but if cut and split wood is just piled in a truck you need 175 cubic feet to get the same amount (or 160 cubic feet if it's cut but not split).