SORTING CONVERTED MATERIAL. 



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2. A Number of Pieces forming a Lot. 



All inferior timber, such as poles, etc., which resemble one 

 another sufficiently, should be placed in lots of 25, 50 or 100. 

 A lot of hop-poles or bean-sticks of first or second quality is 

 arranged easily, an average piece of each kind being selected 

 to guide the workman. Assortments of small timber should 

 be arranged therefore in the depot, in classes and sub-classes. 

 This work will be done the more easily if the woodcutters sort 

 them carefully during the clearance of the felling-area. It is 

 everywhere customary to place small poles and saplings in 

 hundreds, and the larger kinds, and those for which there is 

 only a moderate 

 demand, such as 

 scaffolding -poles, 

 ladder- wood, cart- 

 poles, etc., may be 

 placed in fifties or 

 quarter hundreds. 



They should be 

 placed with their 

 thick ends to- 

 wards the road 

 between stake- 

 driven into the ground. The smaller kinds bean-sticks, 

 hurdle-wood, etc. may be fastened together in lots of 25. 

 Poles may be arranged conveniently by tens, a small rod 

 being placed under the thick ends of each ten poles, in order 

 to facilitate removal (Fig. 180). 



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:irr;uiL r <-(l in tens. 



3. Stacked Wood. 

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All firewood, and as a rule all branch-wood, cloven-wood, or 

 fascines, should be measured by stacked volume, and therefore 

 piled in regular stacks ; a much more difficult matter than 

 the simple one of piling poles, and it must be described in 

 detail. 



(a) Shape and Size of the Stacks. The stacks of firewood, 

 billets, etc., are usually rectangular parallelepipeds, of different 



