Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
[I] He burns 20 cords a year (face cords, nobody measures bush cords up here)
Just out of curiousity, what is a "cord" for you. This unit was used in France but was so variable it's forbidden today. We use "streres", that's one cubic meter, empty spaces included.
A cord in eastern france was an honnest 4 cubic meters, but only three cubic meters in Brittany, for exemple.