How much FIREWOOD will fit in your truck bed?

I get asked about 3 times every day ...how much wood does your truck hold and what size is my truck box...here you go! #firewood

[@jameschandler2776]

I played slow pitch softball until I was 56. I pitched. When I cut wood in the spring, I would build my arm muscles by chucking all my wood with a backspin. It really helped my pitching. That Tundra is just getting broken in I have put over 300,000 on 4 of them and close to 400,000 on 2. They run forever.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is good to hear, the new ones are stupid expensive!

[@jameschandler2776]

I know, I got t-boned in my last one last Apr. and had 15 broken ribs. I bought it new for $26,000. They wanted $80,000 to replace it. I had to buy a Tacom and that was almost too expensive . I am on a teacher's retirement. I couldn't have afforded a Tundra if I was still working.@@InTheWoodyard

[@heymakerphd1982]

If you'd pull in forward, and toss all those sliders, and knuckle chunks over the cab, you'd never even have to worry about bustin' out your rear window!! Geez! So simple!! Always glad to help.

[@InTheWoodyard]

And if you come here and toss all my loads in I can sit and watch you work instead of it always being me working! Haaa!

[@heymakerphd1982]

I'm not THAT willing to help! Besides, I signed up to be the idea man. And I don't have the array of pitches that you do. My only good throw is the lazy change-up! You know, the ol' gravity curve! I gave up on the bigs a long time ago when I threw my arm out in a spring training session tossing chunks against the radar speed gun! A sad day for the future of the game and the Chuckers' Hall of Fame!!@@InTheWoodyard

[@donkreher6078]

Maybe try using IBC totes for the sides of your piles.. Then you can move them out of your way for loading your wood out. Then you can put them back for loading it back up..

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe but I can do that with the pallet corners too.

[@JoesFirewoodVideos]

Depends on the size of the bed, in my case my 2007 Silverado with 6.5’ bed a tossed slightly above the sides is approximately 1/3 of cord or face cord.

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, you are correct!

[@larryvankirk7423]

Nice video Chris. Tree service wood looks nice in the woodbins and the truck. Hot dry weather really does speed up drying firewood. Winter/wet weather will make it difficult to keep dry I suspect. I think I remember you talking about tarping the piles. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I will cover some of it before snow comes.

[@iffykidmn8170]

High of 57F today and a whole bunch of dead standing Elm that needs to be takin down, watching Chris while waiting for daylight.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like a fun day!

[@noel3065]

little tricks of the trade I call it helps. I've never either broken a back window in almost 50 years and one thing I did find is the rubber mat in the box really helps preserve the box.. some say the mat will add rust under it and I have never seen that. good job Chris

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, good call...I like it!

[@user-oz5ke3qt8n]

Hi Chris nice video love wood read to burn that is the best ( ty Ron )

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, wood is good!

[@teddybear4020]

GOOD MORNING . !!!! YA having it up ON PALLETS AWESOME .!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Morning! Yup, it works well!

[@kurtloftfield4537]

Good morning all!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello!

[@JenkinsBoatWorks]

great video. I'm all the time, doing the math to see how much wood I actually have. For my wood stove insert in the house, I tend to re-split what is delivered because I want the additional drying and it fits in the firebox better. Up at the shop with the outdoor wood furnace, I don't get so particular. My wife accuses me of making tooth picks. When I go to stack the smaller pieces, what looked like a cord is then less.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good stuff! It is less because it fits tighter together with no spaces then.

[@davidedwards3734]

Great video on showing how the bins are working on drying wood and mold!! I'll be doing this on next splitting day, now that I have an elevator. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, you will like it!

[@johnchristie1423]

my old high school pys-ed coach got me into throwing the shot put-who knew it was a life long practice in the wood-yard

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, life skill!

[@waynetharp]

My high skool P.E. teacher lives a couple houses down the road from me. He cuts and splits wood to stay in shape since his retirement!💪

[@paulhare662]

'64 Chevy C10, a cord and a quarter, stacked. It rides on the bumpstops and won't stop well but it always makes it home. Unsplit rounds, a cord and a half but the frame gets wobbly.

[@InTheWoodyard]

ouch!!!!

[@larryelliott7482]

Of all the videos I have watched you, I think I have only seen one time when a piece of wood even touched your window. Great job

[@InTheWoodyard]

Wow, thank you!

[@ronaldbrouhard1247]

Of course, if you stacked wood in your truck for YOURSELF, you'd stack it in neat rows so you'd get an actual full load. BTW, what does a cord look like? A full-sized Truck box, (L W B), stacked compactly, with side racks, Cab High, to the Tailgate. AKA, 128 cubic ft. I cut my own firewood since the mid-60s.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, 4' x 4' x 8' .

[@briannelson4493]

Good morning Chris and friends 5-1/4 inches of water in the rain gauge this morning and more coming tonight. And then 23 degrees by Saturday, time to bring the pumpkins to the basement. Keep on cutting

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning! Yup, we have had a mess of rain here too and more tomorrow...all day they are saying!

[@biglilbullies9528]

You may be super shocked to hear this, even the guy we picked up from was shocked. We fit a face cord on our 2 door jeep wrangler sport😂😂 He said he’s never seen that on his years of doing this lol

[@InTheWoodyard]

I am guessing that it was a tight ride! Nice way to make it work!

[@JoesFirewoodVideos]

I broke 1 window and that was enough for me. But it was a oak round in the woods and I was far away.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it can happen!

[@AllenFamilyFirewood]

Nice video Chris I know a few folks that have blown out there windows from doing that. We have Ben looking for one of them dump body inserts to go in the truck bed so the wife can deliver an I can stay splitting .

[@InTheWoodyard]

Great idea.

[@danacampbell-vu2ut]

Morning Chris! ☀️. Where I live there are a couple of apple orchards and they sell the wood that they trim or trees that are old. Some people smoke with it. 👍❤️📹🍎🌳😃

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is awesome! Apple wood is good stuff!

[@samskeeter1]

Hi Chris ,Interesting comments about stacking in and throwing in. Here in NZ you rarely see stacked wood We are too lazy. A cord here is just tossed not stacked . I used to allow people to collect their own wood . It usually let to ill feelings as they'd lie to you about the size of their crate then stack it in or overfill it. So new customers picking up their own got their trailer measured and loaded while I was there.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, people are like that!

[@bobbynash282]

Goodmorning from Alabama, its 32 this morning. Was 26 the last 3 mornings. Cant believe its going up to 80 or so for the next week. As soon as l get started with morning fires, l start needing ac again. Anyway l got 1 scaly bark oak to pickup. An l huge l gotta cut up.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning!

[@inthewilderness2023]

Back when I was a teenager my dad was loading firewood out in the woods. (It’s actually the same woods my profile picture is.) You know how it is out there like that. The tree is down and you you can’t back all the way up to it. He was tossing wood from a distance and one piece went right through the back glass. It was a sliding back glass in his 78 Ford. He also had a gun rack in the back window and it broke one side of it also. Back then in the late 80s a new back glass that wasn’t a sliding glass cost him $90. Also back then the going rate for a delivered rick of firewood was $30. That hurt pretty bad. When I bought my first truck, I put a headache rack on it every fall when I was hauling wood. I haven’t used a headache rack in probably 20 years. I’ve never broken a window, thankfully. I’ve always tried to be really careful and keep my truck looking new.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Same here, just gotta be careful, I have never broke one.....yet!

[@waynetharp]

She is a thing of beauty!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it is that!

[@GPOutdoors]

Love the woodchuck! LOL!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks Gord!

[@markphillips5724]

I'll go out on a limb here and say.. I think Mr Grey is your favorite cat in the Woodyard. Country Mark

[@InTheWoodyard]

He is the nicest most friendly one.

[@The_Smith]

I miss 8 foot boxes on trucks, (but I do like the larger cabs now!)

[@InTheWoodyard]

I like my 6.5' box just fine and yes the extra cab room is awesome.

[@lenturtle7954]

I have a gm crew cab with an eight foot box you can close the tailgate hauling 8' sheets of plywood . Love it

[@craigwilson9560]

Nice bins of firewood with no mold. We had a bery hot and dry year stuff i cut down in July is split down the log. Alothough it is not completely dry, it does helpnthe drying b process. That tundra is broke in! Lots of miles, but if you take care of your equipment, it will take care of you dad always said

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, it was very dry here too!

[@annmariekowalski7505]

Good Morning. Yesterday was a beautiful 82 degree day here in The Garden Community. Very nice teminder on loading wood savfely. Making a few trips to the dump today. Lots of bark from a day and a half of cutting, splitting and stacking. DOINK

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice! The cold is coming soon...finally!

[@annmariekowalski7505]

40 later on in the week

[@digger0429]

Sell that wood make room for more wood good job Chris see ya tomorrow

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, thanks!!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Nicely explained Chris.. see you tomorrow. 😁👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks! You too!

[@coreyriley7160]

G’morning Chris. I was going to warn you,, but you addressed it before I needed to inform you. ;) Thanks for the information. GoodNightIrene

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning! Yup, no window splosions again today!

[@coreyriley7160]

Haaaaaaaaa

[@danelionheart5881]

Talking about breaking windows while tossing in wood got me laughing about a time my older brother thought he would be nice and help my dad take the ice off his windshield. He took boiling hot water off the wood=stove and put it in a 5 gallon bucket then he went outside. Dad asked the other kids what is he doing with the hot water? No one knew and Dad thought maybe he was going to use it for the animals because the water containers were frozen over. Mom said he is trying to take the ice off your windshield . Dad ran to the door and just as he started to scream to late He was in mid toss of the hot water and yes the windshield smashed. My dad was really PO and he had no choice but to drive to work like that . My dad made it clear never ever through hot water on any glass that is ice cold. a week later the same brother went outside with a Hammer yes you all guessed it he wanted to break the ice off the windshield. I can never say the words that came out of my dad's mouth on yt but you all know what he said.

[@InTheWoodyard]

THAT is a great story! thanks!

[@scottnock5241]

Good info Chris!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad it was helpful!

[@111day1]

I’ve been bucking my own firewood here in New Hampshire for close to fifty years. All our Ash are dying now from the Emerald Ash Borer…sad. I haven’t seen any Elm firewood for many years although there are some survivors even on my property. Because of the Ash situation, that has been the predominant firewood available now. It doesn’t burn as slowly or as hot as our other predominate species, Red Oak. Sugar Maple, Hornbeam, Beech, Birch are pretty much what else get.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, all wood burns and you burn what you have!

[@user-rj8wt4xw5r]

Back spin 😂😂😂, piece of plywood against the rear window works Great

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I made one a couple years ago, I used it 2-3 times.

[@Romas65]

Good explanation.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad you think so!

[@billobermeyer660]

Fortunately my tonneau cover folds into thirds and covers the back window so no smashed windows, but I'm still careful loading my truck to prevent other accident possibilities. Keep on tossing. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes, the folding tonneau cover is a great wood stop!

[@ronaldbrouhard1247]

Here's another fact: filling your truck with rounds, (not split) will get the most wood in that space. Not true? Try taking that load of rounds out, split it all, then try to get it all back in that same space. It will NOT happen. The more you split the wood, the more AIR your customer is buying.

[@InTheWoodyard]

okay!

[@alexeystuliy2001]

Yes, that is right. Especially if you cut each log to length of yours trucks bed

[@artillerybuff2000]

Nice!

[@InTheWoodyard]

thanks!

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Good Morning Woodhounds!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello!

[@EricKuter-rr9xc]

cord 4x4by 8

[@hotwheelmanraven2289]

You've just been damn lucky I broke several Windows doing it exactly that way sometimes it would be just slides off the top and shoots out like a rocket you don't have any issues what you would now but as soon as the snow starts flying in that wood is sitting there covered in snow I hope you sell it all before the snow hits cuz when it does that's when you're going to have problems I just a buddy of mine had the same problem last year we tried doing a huge piles no problem all summer soon as the snow started sitting on these piles last year drying out all summer attention to snow gets on it it's like a sponge drywood stop sucking up the moisture west of snow melts and then it creates heat and then it creates mold I hope it doesn't happen because once it does it sure ruins your wood

[@gordonoldfield403]

Put a big tarp over most of it & put a whirly-bird at the top to keep air flowing through the pile !!! Just a thought ??? 🤔

[@InTheWoodyard]

I will tarp most of it soon.

[@InTheWoodyard]

i will tarp it.

[@gordonoldfield403]

@@InTheWoodyard We have whirly-birds that ya put on roofs , don't know what ya call em there , but they would keep the air flowing !!! 50 metre long pile , with 2-3 of them would suck the air through the piles !!! Cut a hole in the tarp & tape it around the W-bird !!! P.S. No snow in Queensland, (Sunshine State) Australia where I live !!! I hate cold 😬

[@BGWenterprises]

A song about some beach somewhere comes to mind. . Even in the land of ((no road salt)) and older autos. trucks with 8 foot beds are becoming increasingly more rare. . Stacked in, I can get 1.25 cord with side boards.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, 8 foot beds are not common because most people drive show ponies and rarely do work with their truck.

[@JesseLJohnson]

@@InTheWoodyard Still see them with 3/4 and 1 ton trucks. They are out there but the 8 foot 1/2 tons are rare. Actually the new HD trucks at least from GM the standard short bed with them is I believe 6 foot 10 inch so basically 7 foot from their standard bed. Most half tons now though are crew cab with the 5 foot 8 inch range bed. You can get a crew cab 6.5 foot bed half ton but you have to order it basically. Rarely see dealers order them that way have to order it yourself. Years ago I had a long bed Ranger. Really rare. Those I think are a 7 foot. It was I think an 02 red reg cab 2wd 4.0 with the long bed. I didn't have it long. I am a dealer so I go through trucks but that was one I had bought and I drove it myself for a little before selling it. Think it was the only one I ever had and I have had a lot of them. About the only way you are getting an 8 foot half ton if buying a new truck today is a stripped down work truck, with a reg cab. You might get an extended cab not sure if they are still making extended cab long bed half tons anymore or not though. But any of the long bed trucks made recently I see half tons at least are as cheap of a truck as you can buy. Next to no options. I have even seen some at the car auctions that don't even have cruise lol. I thought that was basically a standard feature everything gets now but no I have seen some trucks without basic cruise control. See tons of Uhaul rentals at the car auctions. F150s mainly that are a couple years old. All white reg cabs. I have bid on a few but they would be harder to sell since most all are 2wd and that is kinda hard to sell. I have a long bed truck I keep around I have had about 15 years. Its a 3/4 ton though but its a crew cab 06 Silverado. So damn long lol. Lot of fun parking in tight parking lots. I bought myself a brand new Denali Ultimate recently so I def plan on keeping that old truck. My new one was around $90k don't really want to ding it up that old truck I take care of but if it gets a ding or scratch its not going to bother me to much it would drive me nuts on my new fancy truck.

[@JesseLJohnson]

@@InTheWoodyard After seeing this earlier, today I saw one of the new Toyotas with an 8 foot bed. I had no idea they offered them. Not only that it was an extended cab. I can see if it was a regular cab but it was an extended cab with the 8 foot bed. Had no idea they offered them but they do.

[@paulhare662]

@@JesseLJohnson Lumber yards need to get with the times and start selling 6.5 foot 2x4s and plywood.

[@joemunger1047]

You can get a heck more if you lay it neatly like.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, but this customer wanted one face cord or 1/3 of a cord and If I stack it in I can get 1/2 a cord or 1 1/2 face cords if stacked level in the bed.

[@jamesbuchanan7088]

Good morning. 61 degrees here this morning.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Get to work!

[@toddsoutsideagain]

Good stuff Sir Chriseth 👍🏻👍🏻GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thank you kindly my good man!

[@icebergproduction]

I always just toss the wood in from the side of the truck - don't have to worry about hitting glass.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, just the side if the truck!!!

[@LeBlancfirewood]

Just finished sharpening saws with the dremmel going to cut oh yeah forks came in

[@InTheWoodyard]

Awesome, get cuttin'!

[@michellariviere4911]

Cord it in the pickup bed, youll put more

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

55°F and misty out this morning Folks.... 5 more days of warm weather but come Monday mornin.... 28°F is headed our way here in Ashville Ohio!! Have a great day!

[@saltrock9642]

88 here today in the Feliciana’s of Louisiana and drought continues. Trees are dying (water oaks and magnolias mostly) and most ponds have dried up. Getting desperate for rain.

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

@@saltrock9642 Jet stream is shifting Sunday night the weather Guessers say!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, next week the highs are going to be in the 30s

[@InTheWoodyard]

We have had a bunch of rain here!

[@saltrock9642]

@@InTheWoodyard 😡🖕🤣

[@pastormike5054]

Good night Irene

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!

[@ChrisLascari]

Good morning, more work on the pig pens today, bacon is delicious

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup and yes it sure is!

[@martiball4531]

Yay. Wood cats

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@cah_sawmill]

good afternoon my friend, have a nice day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning to you!

[@kennethtibbitts414]

FREE IS GOOD!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!

[@shanepeche9636]

Hi Chris, I have a small firewood delivery business about 1/2 hour north of you. I’d love to come down and see your operation.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Ya, I get offers every week for that! You can see everything on my videos there is one EVERY day and 1200 others on my channel, I would like to but I do not have time to chat about firewood and give tours now. Maybe some time in the spring will work when I am not working 14-16 hours a day! Thanks!

[@vanwhalen3719]

Love your videos! Is Elm good for the fire place?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks...Yes it is!

[@robertlapin813]

It's about right for 16 inch lengths to be 1/3 cord when the bed is full. My bed is a bit longer and it fills just under that with 1/3 cord. Always stack your delivery or buy it from a measured stack. If you are short you can argue for a bit more or next time find a better supplier. If it's heavy you made a good deal and the supplier usually won't complain. If you buy a pre stacked lot make sure it's 16" wide and well stacked. A good eye can bag you a bit extra. If you take 12" widths then a 1' x 8' x4' would be only 1/4 cord. A full cord is 4' x 8' x4' so two rows of 24" lengths fit and one row of that is 1/2 cord. 128 cu ft of well stacked wood is a cord so you can measure your truck bed and have a close idea.

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup!

[@Servant927]

Is your truck bed 6ft or 8 ft? Looked 6ft bed but the camera can be deceiving. Thank you for all your videos. Great content! Have a great day.

[@InTheWoodyard]

6.5'

[@lifeontherez]

Great video Chris, I actually built my bin based off of your videos lol. Just curious, where do you get all your pallets? I need to start making new bins but having trouble sourcing pallets.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Everywhere, just start looking and asking .

[@charlesworniv611]

@lifeontherez - I am not sure where you live but I would look and see if there are any places that build/recycle pallets. There are a couple around where I live and they sell pallets - different prices based on build quality. However, the told me I could have all the plastic pallets I wanted for free because they can’t do anything with them. I figured plastic ones would work good for firewood & will not rot.

[@ralphkanagy4602]

Hi. Chris

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello again Ralphy Baby! Good to see you here again so soon!!

[@smorefirewood]

All of it.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!!

[@rickthelian2215]

Feeding time for the fut balls😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, they like to eat!

[@davehendrick5497]

What's you guess on how much wood, thrown in loosely, in a 6x10 trailer, slightly heaped, 18-20 " sides

[@InTheWoodyard]

2 face cords or 2/3 of a cord???

[@lanningjw]

Let's see ya pull up to a tree service and get the the wood. Some one to don't know it's hard I have tried

[@InTheWoodyard]

A few of them called me. I does not happen instantly you might have to give before you get. Offer to go help drag brush in exchange for wood. Or offer to bring your trailer to have them load it so they don't have to haul it to you...think about making it easy for them .

[@JesseLJohnson]

I have seen ads in the marketplace from what has to be a tree service selling dump trailer loads of logs for $75. I guess its not free but its a decent deal. I know one of the bigger tree services here will give you some if you ask sometimes but the owner takes it all home and he has a processor so he sells the firewood himself. He has so damn much though sometimes he will give some away. I have got some recently from crews that were trimming along the side of my road and when they put in the new telephone poles. They were cutting trees back and I stopped and asked and since I was right there they hauled me some loads. They really made a mess when they did the poles lol. They just topped a bunch of trees along the road left the rest standing. Some of what they brought me I really didn't want but I took it anyway. It was pine. Nobody around here really wants pine but I burned some on my burn pile and sold some to campers. If I didn't take it though they probably wouldn't have brought me anything else so I just took it.

[@lanningjw]

We just cut 13 logger cord of pine for my Farmer Buddy up north northern Minnesota he loves burning the pine cuz he doesn't get the clinkers in his outside wood burner he said the pine is the only way to go he gets a a big huge truckload of it for you know $800-900 bucks That's what he says

[@paulhare662]

I've been heating with tree service wood for 20+ years, all free and delivered to my driveway in 8-10 foot lengths. Only problem I have is finding someone on site that speaks English. Just finished up my last load, 2.5 cords of Locust, Ash and Maple.

[@grimreaper4015]

1/4 cord

[@InTheWoodyard]

1/3

[@haroldanderson2781]

Will there be any ash at the beach?😎

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, always is!

[@jodyfree953]

💯

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!

[@brucearney9536]

Do you know how much crap you will get if by chance you break a window ? 😁👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, ALL OF IT!

[@stuartsplace100]

Iron wood(hardack)

[@InTheWoodyard]

(Hornbeam) too!

[@user-pt7ic5qz1l]

Good morning, I would like to purchase one of your bar clamps, so how do I do that

[@InTheWoodyard]

Awesome...just email me at [e-mail] and we will get you on the list for the next batch to be made! Thanks!!

[@bekaerttrio2231]

👍👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!!

[@firewoodathome]

👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@yugdnuosfaed]

Is that a 6 or 8 ft truck bed?

[@InTheWoodyard]

6.5

[@paulhare662]

Eight foot is a truck bed, anything less is just silly.

[@jackpinesavageadventures3142]

👍🏻👏

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!

[@bobmac9070]

Thats wasted space stacking and lost room. More wood can fit if it’s stacked properly!

[@InTheWoodyard]

That's wasted time stacking. Not necessary and It dries faster loose. Properly stacked wood dries slower wastes time but for a home owner who want a pretty pile has extra time and has limited space stacking works.

[@KingDuumb]

Don't you find it sad some get up in arms on by what people want to be called but school children and some adults can not figure out cubic inches, cubic feet or cubic yards? It is basic math I earned in about grade 5 how about you?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup!

[@EricPetersen2922]

The cutbacks in education funding in America have shown up, sad situation.

[@grimreaper4015]

1/4 cord

[@InTheWoodyard]

1/3

[@grimreaper4015]

@InTheWoodyard if it's split well, I mean very well. There's a huge firewood seller in Las cruces nm who ripps people off b y not doing so, purposely leaving small branches to take up space so it's silly not what it should be. I don't buy from him but LOTS of folks who don't know better do. Like I was.