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8. Large unsplit pieces. 



9. Small split billets fastened with withes (Fr. cotri't). 



10. Faggots of larger wood from thinnings without twigs, 



under 2| inches in diameter. 



11. Branch-faggots. 



12. Faggots of thorns, &c., from cleanings. 



13. Heaped-up faggot wood. 



14. Bark for fuel. The bark of silver-fir and spruce, when 

 it is not required for tanning, is often stacked and sold 

 for fuel. The bark rolls-up when thoroughly dried, and 

 becomes less bulky. 



Section VII. — Clearing the Felling-area. 

 1. Explanation of the Term. 



The felled and converted material of different kinds, which 

 during the process of conversion lies scattered over the felling- 

 area, must be sorted and collected in a temporary forest depot. 

 This is situated within the felling-area, in a valley or on a road 

 leading from one, at the top of a timber-slide or sledge-road, 

 or on the banks of a stream down which it is proposed to float 

 the material. In no case, however, should the forest depot be 

 so far removed from the felling-area that the material cannot be 

 transported there by the regular woodcutters with the help of 

 simple means of transport. 



Clearing the felling-area, therefore, means removing the 

 material by dragging, carrying, sliding, or sledging to a con- 

 venient forest depot either within the felling-area or not too 

 remote from it. 



Whenever the material is to be removed to a permanent 

 depot near the place of consumption or a railway-station, by 

 means of more or less permanent means of communication, 

 such as roads, slides, forest-tramways, streams, &c., all the 

 measures required to effect its removal come under the head of 

 wood-transport. Clearing a felling-area and transport cannot 

 however be distinctly separated, and sometimes they are both 

 carried on simultaneously by means of the same gang of wood- 

 cutters. 



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