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The classic answer, based on a tongue-in-cheek estimate, is about 700 pounds. Wildlife biologist Richard Thomas calculated in 1988 that a woodchuck could move roughly 700 pounds of dirt when digging a burrow, so by that logic it might chuck about the same amount of wood.

In reality, woodchucks (also called groundhogs) don't chuck wood at all. They dig burrows. Another popular answer is: "As much wood as a woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could chuck wood."

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You're right. The traditional answer is the circular one: a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Your version is a common way of phrasing it. My earlier reply was misleading to call the 700-pound figure the classic answer. That number is the more modern, tongue-in-cheek estimate, based on how much dirt a woodchuck moves when digging a burrow.