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RIDER'S TECHNICAL SERIES- - 



No. 9. 143 pp. Price 2s. 6d. 



Handbook of Saw=Mill and 



WOOD-CONVERTING MACHINERY, 



with Notes on Construction, Speed, etc. 



By M. Powis BALE, M I.C.E., M .I.ilE., 



Author of " Modern Shafting and Gearing." 



"Saw-Mills," etc. 



"This is a concise and useful handbook, that 

 should find a place in the foreman's office of 

 every builder using machinery, and it would 

 not be without its uses in the general saw mill." 

 Builder's Journal. 



No. 1O. 208 pp. Price 33. 6d. post free. 



English Timber and its Econo= 



MICAL CONVERSION. By " ACORN." 

 A Handbook for Home Timber Merchants, 

 Manufacturers, Growers and others. 

 This book gives, in a practical and concise manner, 

 notes upon every kind of home-grown commercial timber 

 in the various stages through which it must pass from 

 the hands of the grower to its ultimate consumption by the 

 manufacturer . 



The following subjects are some which it deals : 

 Critical Notes upon the Measurement of Round Timber 

 Practical Hints to Buyers Soil, Situation and Dis- 

 tances from Converting and Consuming Centres The 

 Proper Seasons for Felling Bark Peeling Labour Prices 

 Railway Rates Question Hauling Top-cutting. Knot- 

 ting and Hewing The Saw Mill and Machinery Methods 

 of Drying Defects in Timber Economical Conversion of 

 Oak, Ash, Elm, Beech, Larch, Scotch, Spruce, Sycamore, 

 Poplar, Sweet Chestnut. Horse Chestnut, Alder, Willow, 

 Lime, Hornbeam, Whitebeamj/Mountain Ash, Apple, 

 Pear, Acacia, Cherry, Cedar, m^v. Walnut, Birch, and 

 Hawthorn The Various Trades for which they are used 

 The Common and Generic Names of British Trees and 

 their Approximate Weights and Shrinkages, &c. 



WILLIAM RIDER" & SON, LIMITED. 



Timber Trades Journal Office^ 

 164, ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON, E.G. 



