cordwood

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood float- ing down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.

Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. She had been reading, but her book had slipped to the floor, and now she was dreaming, with a smile on her parted lips.

"But there's always post-holes to dig, and cordwood to chop, and the climate's fine .

A top covering for the wall would need to extend beyond the edges of the cordwood at least 6" on each side.

Four production alternatives for pellets and cordwood are also included (A9 to A12) covering a range of purchased and mill residual pellet feedstocks.

Soon he was studying timber frame design and the use of cordwood walls.

We cut, sawed and hauled the cordwood 10 miles to our homes in Pitcher on a 200-bushel barrel spreader modified for this purpose.

Older ways of building such as cob and adobe are being rediscovered, while cordwood and straw bale construction are reaching maturity and are being refined.

Cordwood Building--The State of the Art by Rob Roy (2003, New Society Publishers) collects over 25 of the world's best practitioners of cordwood (or stackwall) construction to describe the history of the method and to show how to build a cordwood home using state-of-the-art techniques.

But once you've asked him into your life, he's very reliable and shows up each fall bearing cordwood piled high on an old pickup that looks as if it has been rolled down the side of a mountain.

Charles' major commodities were wood of all kinds, both cordwood and lumber, cheese of all kinds, butter, cider and hay.

COUNTRYSIDE: I'm replying to a question posed in the issue (September/ October 2011), by "Denise" about using aspen in cordwood walls.