| Show METHODS OUTLINED TO MAKE CORDWOOD common plan Is to cut trees into four foot lengths sawing Is usually done by machines driven by gasoline or electricity small pieced can be packed closely prepared by the united states ment ot agriculture the most common method 0 making cordwood cord wool Is to cut the trees into four foot lengths with the ax and arit the larger pieces the pieces are then piled in a standard cord which la eight feet long four feet high and four feet wide the contents are cubic feet of which about 70 per cent Is wood and 30 per cent air wood cut four feet long can be sold to brick yards lime kalns kilns metal working plants and other industries Indu but Is too large for household use this method Is used cheehy where the treo growth Is comparatively small as in second growth besadie be cadie such wood splits easily another method atud one better adopted for old growth hard woods which are difficult to split Is to saw the tree into logs 0 convenient lengths say from 10 to 15 feet these are snaked out to the edge 0 tle tl e woodland and there sawed and split wood piled ready for splitting into lengths proper for the stove or furnace the sawing Is usually done by machine driven cither by gasoline or by electricity the wood Is plied four feet high and eight feet long such a pile being called a stove wood or running cord or run when the wood Is sawed into IG inch lengths as Is customary with stove material three runs are theoretically equivalent to one cord actually they contain somewhat more wood since small pieces can be packed more closely than larger ones |
