How to buy and sell firewood
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"One of the first questions a person buying :firewood asks is "How much per cord?" Price is important, but just as important is agreement on a standard way to measure and transfer the wood. Both the buyer and seller must agree and understand the procedure. Many people who buy :firewood for their home wood stoves admit they don't understand the transfer process. Some dealers talk in terms of a rick, a rank or a pickup load. Others mention a face cord, and still others talk in terms of a cord or fractions of a cord. Sometimes the definitions vary from dealer to dealer and from locality to locality. For example, in most sales, no procedure of transfer even exists. The dealer dumps the pickup load in the yard at a designated point, collects the fee from the buyer, and moves on. Although most dealers are probably honest and the transactions fair, this is no way to run a business. A wood dealer might profess to sell a half cord without ever having measured the wood. In such cases, neither the dealer nor the buyer knows with any degree of accuracy how much merchandise passed in the transaction. The :firewood industry appears to be operating without an equitable method of sale in many instances." -- first page
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