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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A cord of wood in the United States and Canada, if not elsewhere, is a volume of firewood. A cord should be 4X4X8 feet of chopped wood. This 3D measure gets its name from the use of a fixed length of cord, that was wrapped around a stack in the olden days to gauge its size. Calling it a “quart” of wood might be a way of restoring the notion of volume to a cord.
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Keith drove the car 750 miles up from Alabama without ever using one drop of gas and just returned from a cross country trip from South Carolina to San Francisco and back. “This particular truck gets about 5,000 miles for a quart of wood,” Keith said.
(http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=52986)
No moose was harmed
A highlight of the summer season is the annual Moose Dropping Festival, staged by the Talkeetna Historical Society in July. The celebration starts with the Mountain Mother Contest, where women participants split a quart of wood, then run an obstacle course wearing snowshoes—all with the equivalent weight of a baby strapped on their back.
(http://www.akstp.com/talkeetna.html)
Edit: took out a bum steer of wood.
Last edited by David Bird (2009-12-12 10:01:24)
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