Firewood math problem

[560Dennis]

Kinda like figuring the board foot of the logs ,total and dispense

 

[wheat straw]

Hummm, never thought about cutting wood was too complicated. When i was young i cut wood on a neighbor's farm on the halves. It was smaller timber in an overgrown pasture and i fell a tree and cut the log into firewood lengths. I loaded every other stick onto my truck and left his lay on the ground. I started with the butt cut every other time. Doubt it would come out even on the scales, but we were both happy with it.

 

[Turkeyfoot]

I’ll be splitting about 6-8 cords of oak that belongs to a nearby neighbor. Logs are stacked, need to be cut and split. It’ll allow me to get some of my toys in play and it’s easy access and less than 3 miles away. I said ok.

I get 60% of the wood. She wants to keep the remaining 40% of whatever I actually cut and split.

Other than just eyeballing the amounts, is there some efficient way of approximating the 60-40 split? I don’t plan to count every stick of wood—or even one for that matter. I’m sure the two of us can come to some reasonable guesstimate of our respective shares. Just seeing if anyone has suggestions and thought it would be a fun mental exercise.

If it were me I might do two piles as I split. Toss the pieces into the separate piles as I split them - "two for you, three for me. Two for you, three for me..."

 

[fusion1]

I would do it Gambles way , sounds pretty simple to me
I think she will be fine with it

 

[DoubleO7]

As you load the pieces of "finished" firewood.

Toss six pieces into your trailer and four pieces into her pile.

 

[wh]

If you divide the logs and agree then there is no counting. Maybe redmf has a way to carry logs to his house and can cut his wood there at his pace. Maybe he has help (children) and there is no worry over who is throwing wood into which pile. It is not rocket science and there are many good ways mentioned. Just do whatever you feel is fairest/easiest way.