Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 20, 2021

Poor Arlo. He just doesn’t stack up.

A cord is still 128 cu ft, no matter how you stack it….

I sympathize, Arlo. I once ordered a cord of firewood. When I saw how much it turned out to be, I paid to have 3/4 of it taken back. (And years later I still have about 1/8 of a cord remaining, although extremely well-seasoned. I should use my fireplace more often.)

Expecting a cold winter?

Yup. Have two. One half of one next to the wall just outside, the other half in the garage and the other one in the barn. Probably won’t touch the one in the barn except to bring it out next year, but you never can tell up here.

Arlo was in search of the lost chord!

Playing oboe, clarinet, and bassoon with different tunes together.

A wall of wood? Should last several winters.

Looks like Arlo has a backlog

This is how the Great Wall got it’s start.

It’s certainly one of those hotdog/bun issues. Thing is, most wood racks are 4′×8′ and are designed to hold what we (well most people) would call a “face” cord, which is 1/3 of a cord. (if you think of the 4′×8′ length by width and then 3-16" pieces ‘deep’ for the 4’ ‘depth’) So, you are buying ‘the face’ (or front 1/3) of the cord as it were.

That should last through Christmas. My wife and cat love our hot wood stove.

To me it looks like Arlo has built a wall of wood bricks.

I don’t get it. Is that wood, or bricks?

it doesn’t have to 4×4×8.....just 128 cubic feet

Looks like Arlo got a king-sized cord… i.e., a cord du roi.

Didn’t miss a trick in that rick

No frost-bite because you didn’t have enough wood.

I can’t believe nobody commented that Arlo “got wood”.

4X4X8 is a cord unless it’s a face cord.

It is 8 Ft LONG, 4 Feet HIGH. I stacked a lot of wood as a child. lol

amazing he got them to stack so perfectly. Jenga anyone!

Often when you buy a cord of wood it’s a “face cord”, meaning it’s 4’ tall and 8’ wide but less than 4’ deep.

Arlo bought a cord of firewood. Which is a lot of wood for just recreational use in a Southern State. A typical piece of firewood is two feet long. If Arlo stacked them one piece deep, he’d have an eight by eight foot wall of wood.

Not necessarily…..

and split and stacked tight enough a squirrel can’t run through, as my grandfather instructed.

You got a lot wrong by the looks of that pile.

sometimes, this ‘comic’ strip, isnt very funny

What is a cord of wood? Its a hell of a lot of work if you are chopping carrying, splitting, and stacking it yourself

Common mistake. Arlo accidentally ordered a crapload of wood.

All they need now is a bird feeder for the rats in that condo.

Long ago my uncle claimed that it was women who couldn’t measure things because they were told that the distance between their forefinger and thumb was 6 inches.

I love my gas fireplace! It even works when electricity goes out, which is extremely rare here. I don’t miss dealing with a real fireplace.

We bought a ‘yard’ of dirt, once. He,he,he.

Sure a lot of wood cord puns here.

“HEY YOU WOODCHUCKS! QUIT CHUCKING MY WOOD!”

Measure twice and cut once. Poor Arlo still got something wrong.

Not necessarily. If it’s 16×4×2, that’s a cord.

What am I looking at?

A half a foot by 8 feet by 32 feet works too.

I had a great uncle who said he could make more money stacking wood than any other way. Reckon he left enough air spaces that a cord didn’t take as much wood. Sad really.

Ha, I thought that was the roof and those were shingles.

I remember reading about a Honda with license plate 4×4×8...

Coming face-to-face with just how big a cord of firewood happens to be…yeah, been there.