burning wood could reduce your overall heating costs. So, it's important to know what goes into purchasing and storing cords of firewood. A cord is a unit of measurement for firewood. To measure ...

Firewood is sold in units called cords. A cord is a pile of wood that equals 128 cubic feet, generally measured as 4' x 4' x 8'. If you need less than a full cord, you can purchase in fractions of ...

The four cords of wood seen here represent 80 per cent of the wood Murray Cook prepares to heat his home, which he built in 1956 on the family property in Cooks Cove, N.S., with his father and ...

Murray Cook starts his day the same way he's started it for most of his 97 years. He has hot porridge for breakfast, takes a couple of vitamins, and sets out to chop wood and do other chores to ...