wanted cordwood.

[Ilnumero]

2m pulp, brings back memories.

 

I still have the pulp tongs I bought for that job, Stihl ones, I think, and do use them all the time. I wouldn't be without them, a very useful tool.

[kindlett]

hi you wont get a 8 wheeler that will carry 25tonnes ,ill pm you a number .

[waterbuoy]

Just to pick upon the threads of a couple of days ago relating to the use of cordwood and cords etc.

 

Yesterday we visited friends in Herefordshire who live in a house on the banks of the Wye. Their house is next to the site of a sawmill which has been in existence for more than two centuries. In their front hall they have an old school desk on which was placed one of the original sales ledgers - this one started in 1813! - a real thing of beauty with full copperplate script etc

 

One of the very first entries was for '20 cords of cordwood', a term which regularly appeared throughout the rest of the ledger. Other uses included '61' of birch cordwood' (why 61? - I have no idea!) and 'x' cords of 'y' timber.

 

My own understanding is that cordwood is roundwood which is not for milling, and that a cord is a volumetric measurement of this. The ledger contains repeated entries which confirm this interpretation, indicating that neither term is particularly modern!