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[silver star]

My wise Quaker great uncle is was an author.  He wrote a book about settling in to a nearby County decades before it became what is best described as Indiana's Vermont- the county that people flock toin the Fall. Became an artist colony and intellectual retirement area as well.

In the forties, he and my aunt lived year round in a large military tent as they built their home. He wrote about a time he had a local deliver a rick of firewood. After he stacked it he thought it was a little light on dimension. He contacted the guy and said he understood a rick to be measured by those dimensions. The guy replied " oh, you're talkoing about a shook rick. That's extra if you want a shook rick" 

I presume the meaning is similar to when you fill a bag or box with stuff and give it a shake it get some more stuff in.

Ol' Hank found that so amusing, he named his ad hoc publishing company "Shook Rick Press"    Not sure if he did business with him again, and he became more astute that over the decades he was the very fabric and history of the County.

Is a shook rick anything you all have heard of?

[BoilerHouse]

We don't use the term rick here and  I have certainly never heard of a shook rick but I did find this story amusing.  There seems to be a lot of terms to describe a measure of firewood, and they all seem to work in the seller's favour.
On the weekend, I will be taking delivery of logs.  I will probably receive a normal load, and get charged for a shook load.

[BIG AL]

There is a guy down the street from me who sells the closest thing to a "shook" load I have ever come across. He does land clearing and not much firewood processing. He will bring you whatever he can pack into a 10 wheeler with the excavator in tree lengths for $300. Usually yields 4+ full cords. He brought my dad 2 loads last year , quite something to see , doesn't care if the logs are 12' or 20' long or how far they stick out the back. Not bad when the average price here for a face cord seasoned is $275.

[duramax]

I have seen some heated posts on other sites discussing this. It looks as if what firewood is sold as  is a regional thing. I looked up Massachusetts and it isn't even legal to sell cord wood by the cord but then again we got some idiots debating changing daylight savings time in the state. If they can poke  a finger in anything here in Mass and mess it up they will.