Firewood pack sizes are a real minefield. It is often not clear what sizes firewood packs or “loads” are and how to compare them.

Firstly, always buy firewood by volume, never by weight, because of the massive variability in weight due to water content. The less water, the less weight but the higher quality.

So volume will be stated in cubic metres (m³) or litres. There are 1000 litres in 1 m³.

However firewood volume has a further complication, the difference between “loose filled” or “close stacked”.

There are more logs per m3 if close stacked. The ratio is around 1m³ loose = 0.6m³ stacked, see image below:

So at Firewood Express our standard sales volume is 2m³ loose filled:

The other pack you may be interested in, not least for the ease of handing, is the pallets of smaller nets.

The volume of these is very hard to assure or calculate. Which is the same for all manufacturers. In this case, you just have to look at the photos to assess.

What I can say is that there is approximately the same amount of wood in our pallets of 48 nets as there is in the loose filled 2m³, but as each log is hand selected, there are less under or over size logs, they are more uniform in the smaller nets. 

We have both larch or hardwood in pallets of smaller nets:

Click to view hardwood small nets

Click to view larch small nets