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From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:35:58 +0100


Where? Here...... Welsh summer! Mikey.
-----Original Message-----
From: James and Sue Stone <>
To: <>
Date: 05 July 2000 06:12
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"


Where are your four-cord winters? I used to live in E. Idaho for
seven years. I liked to have six cords going in to winter. Wood
heat was just for the waking hours; at night I heated w/
propane.

I liked the Chamber of Commerce description of the weather,
"...can only be described as mild, with a week or two of thirty
below in the winter."

James
In Idaho (boise these days...that banana belt...)

Roland Elliott wrote:
>
> 4 cord winters
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James and Sue Stone" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 19 26 PM
> Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
>
> geez...what a thread i started!
> 'buck' means to cut logs cross grain. In 'the woods' it means
> cutting them from whole tree length into 'log' length. Logs are
> a standard length, probably determined at the sale. I don't know
> how much each are used, or which is the most common, but they are
> 8, 16, and 32 feet long.
>
> Firewood is measured in cords. A cord is a neatly stacked
> woodpile which is four-feet high, four-feet wide, and eight-feet
> long. Or four, by two, by 16 feet. With tongue firmly in cheek,
> the 'cord' unit of measure said to be one tenth the amount
> necessary to last a Montana winter. (The weather in Wisdom,
> Montana is best described as 10 months of winter and two months
> of 'tough sledding.')
>
> "Haul" referrs to how one gets the wood from where it is growing,
> to where the stove is.
>
>
> Roland Elliott wrote:
> >
> > "buck' cut in sections,"Haul"
> > means haul,Santa is north of Yo Semite R
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 22 56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
> >
> > Alexandra et al,
> >
> > Roland:
> >
> > What is the "buck, haul" bit please?
> > Have you got Santa's Rudolf?<g>
> >
> > Yours,
> > Mikey.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roland Elliott <>
> > To: <>
> > Date: 04 July 2000 03:17
> > Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
> >
> > I fall,limb,buck,haul and split about 10 cords a year.R
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James and Sue Stone" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 19 04 PM
> > Subject: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
> >
> > Around the dinner table tonight, the subject of cutting down
> > trees came up. My son was asking how wildland firefighters cut
> > big trees down, particularly when they are on fire. I explained
> > that the firefighters request a 'faller' when the tree is beyond
> > their skill-range to cut down. I have seen 'fallers' (usually
> > individuals who work for a logging company) on wildland fires
> > with their BIG chainsaws...with five foot bars on their power
> > saws. (More jargon...the 'bar' is that flat blade-like portion
> > of the chainsaw upon which the chain runs round and round).
> >
> > In the northwest, and probably other parts of the country where
> > logging has been a major occupation, those who cut down trees are
> > called 'fallers.' Because lots of people have different kinds of
> > jobs in a logging operation, calling someone a 'logger' is not
> > very specific in explaining what they do.
> >
> > James and Sue
> > in Idaho
> >
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