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CHAPTER VI. 



WOOD-DEPOTS. 



IN order to collect transported wood in an orderly way, and 

 store it for a longer or shorter period, a site must be selected 

 for a permanent wood-depot, from which it may pass into 

 the hands of the wood-merchant or consumer. Cases occur 

 not unfrequently when it is necessary to keep the trans- 

 ported wood, especially logs and sawmill butts, in water until 

 it is used, but usually wood is stored on land and kept dry. 



The arrangement of a wood-depot differs according as the 

 wood has been transported by land or water. 



1. Land-depot*. 



Any well-drained area, sufficiently extensive and accessible 

 to cart-traffic, will serve as a depot for wood transported on 

 carts, tramcars or sledges. In collecting and storing logs, 



Fi.L r . -*">. Arrangement of logs in depot. 



which are to be transported further by the purchaser, all that 

 is required is to arrange them in an orderly manner after 

 duly considering the available space. If there is plenty of 

 room and the logs are to be numbered, measured and regis- 

 tered at the depot, they may be arranged as shown in Fig. 285, 

 or the logs and butts may be placed in three or four layers, 

 crosswise, one above the other. If there is not much room, 

 and no necessity for estimating the volume of the wood, the 

 logs and butts may be rolled into heaps, as in Fig. 286. In 



