Logs (fuel)
Logs are called logs that are split lengthways and are mainly used as firewood or to make wood shingles . The splitting is done with an ax (a wood splitter , a splitting hammer , splitting wedges ) and hammer, also with wedges standing or fixed vertically on a surface. The individual pieces are logs , out of date called logs , derived from Old High German scît : piece. Log boilers are used to burn whole logs . Kneeling on “logs” was a punishment measure in times when corporal punishment was also allowed in raising children .
A value of 33 cm has become established for the length of the billets. Almost all firing systems such as B. Furnished stoves or open fireplaces. A piece of firewood one meter long (forest standard) can easily be divided into thirds
Particularly thin split logs are also chipboard or chip called, and such long-fiber wood chips even when planing or hewing wood produced as waste. As tension but is also referred to long-grain thin wood mainly from poplar wood and other softwoods, which for the production of wooden boxes and wooden crates are used.
Chip wood as kindling wood
In Baden-Württemberg in particular, the term Spächtele 'ʃbɛçdələ (usually used in the plural, singular: das Spächtele, ' ʃbɛçdəle ) is used for chip wood as a kindling wood , in Austria the term Spreissel is used (German German Spreissel but the 'Schiefer'). The production is called "Spächtele make", "Spreissel make, spreisseln" and the like.
For the production, wood chips are split off very thinly from larger pieces of wood on a chopping stick with an ax . With appropriately soft wood (such as spruce), a knife can be sufficient as a splitting device; it is always advantageous that the initial piece of wood to be cut is dry and free of knots so that the cracks made with an ax or knife along the running direction can easily and unhindered through run whole piece; Whoever stores the wood has an eye on suitable pieces in order to carefully put them aside for their later "finer" use. The average "spatula" is about 20 cm long, about 2-3 cm wide and should not be much thicker than 1 cm.
In rural households, the production of kindling wood (chipboard or manually produced wood chips from tree cuttings waste wood) is usually done where this kindling wood is then stored to dry off the moisture in the wood , for example in a hut away from the house.
The wood types birch, beech, oak and alder are mostly used as firewood.
See also
- pyre
- Fathoms , an old measure of length or space for logs
- Fidibus , a lighting aid
- Kienspan
- Chip tree
- Nut blocks
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Anonymous: Did the schoolmaster have Brod? or I am a school patron , text of a comedy, Prague and Leipzig with Caspar Widtmann 1786, available online at Google Books .
- ^ Hermann Fischer: Swabian dictionary . Volume 5 (ORS edited with the participation of Wilhelm Pfleiderer). H. Laupp, Tübingen 1920.