SORTING ANJ) STACKING. 



countries, this is done only when there is a long interval 

 between the stacking and the sale of the firewood, but in 

 \\ urteniberg and Hesse no excess height is allowed. 

 This excess height is as follows in different countries : 



Prussia ^th of the regular height. 

 Bavaria ^th ,, 



Switzerland ^ -th ,, ,, 



Considering that the shrinkage of the billets does not 

 depreciate the heating-power of the wood and that its total 

 amount varies greatly according to circumstances, such as the 

 interval between stacking and sale, the species of wood, the 

 position of the stack, the degree of splitting, etc., and that no 

 excess is allowed for shrinkage in the case of timber, it is 

 advisable not to allow for it in firewood except where legal 

 rights to that effect have arisen, it has also been proved by 

 Bohnierle* that there is scarcely any change after a year in 

 the height of a stack of firewood, as warping counteracts the 

 shrinkage, so that according to his experiments, its height 

 decreases only by about an inch in a year. 



(d) Stacks of Cloven Timber. In stacking cloven timber, 

 great care must be taken to separate the better kinds from 

 inferior timber, and not to suffer any unsound or knotty wood 

 in a stack. In the case of oak wood, all sound split pieces 

 must be included in stacks of cloven timber, and oak-iirewood 

 stacks should not contain a single sound piece which can be 

 classed as timber. 



.Deviations from this rule are justifiable only where there is 

 no demand for inferior classes of cloven wood. In the 

 Bavarian Forest, the detailed assorting of coniferous cloven 

 timber is done partly during the floating, the floating work- 

 men selecting from out of the water the good pieces, that are 

 used for sieve-frames, match-wood, etc. The employees, who 

 are sworn to deal fairly, stack this wood on the bank and value 

 it as timber. 



(e) Stacking Faggots. Faggots are collected into piles 

 each containing 25, or a multiple of 25 faggots. They are 

 put sometimes horizontally, but keep much better standing, 



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