Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECTION XXVIII. OF MAKING ALLOWANCES FOR THE BARK WHEN MEASURING AND VALUING GROWING TREES. When trees are old, with their bark on, it is common to make an allowance to the purchaser for the thickness of the bark; and the allowance to be made is supposed to reduce the tree to what it would be if the bark was stripped off. Various disputes have arisen of late years betwixt sellers and buyers as to the allowances for bark; and scarcely two measurers will, in measuring a quantity of round rough timber with the bark on it, come within 5 or 6 feet in 100 of each other. Hence it is become very common in many places for the buyer, when he makes the purchase, to make a clause in the agreement for the bark to be stripped off every piece where the girth is to be taken. It is true that the bark of all kinds of trees varies very considerably in thickness, according to age and size. If the following rule be attended to, it will be found to be very near the truth in all kinds of timber, beech excepted, which does not require so much allowance as the other kinds of hard wood, the bark being rather thinner.,'i' From i of the! To i of the girth, 1 girth or side of or side of the the square, J square. J 3 inchest f 6 inches " f ± inch It Uvtl-" 18 do. (Im do. f ««qTM« and upwards.) 11J do. J When the trees are measured growing with my newly invented machine, the extreme girth or circumferences of the tree are taken, from which deduct as follows: VVhen the girth or circumference is any thing. From 12 inches up to 24 inches, deduct 2 inches. From 24 inches up to 36 inches, deduct 3 inches. From 36 inches up to 48 inches, deduct 4 inches. From 48 inches up to 72 inches, deduct 5 inches. From 72 inches and upwards, deduct 6 inches. The above deductions will be...
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