Sixties (unit)
Sixties was a German volume measure for firewood and a brandy measure .
Wood measure
Dimension
Sixties was on the one hand a piece measure in the firewood trade and on the other hand a term for construction timber (spruce and fir) with fixed dimensions. The following dimensions were in use regionally:
- Resin : 1 sixties corresponded to 1 tree trunk length = 90 to 95 feet , diameter at the bottom 14 to 15 inches, at the top 5 to 6 inches
- Thuringia : 1 sixties corresponded to 1 tree trunk length = 34 feet, diameter below 6 inches, above 5 inches
Piece measure
- 1 sixties = 60 shock small logs
- 1 sixties = 60 sixties = 3600 billets
- 1 sixties wood was 4 fathoms and 11 cubic feet with a log 4 feet long.
Volume measure
The amount differed from region to region, ranging between 205 and 229 liters.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world . Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 311.
- ^ Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: New, most elegant conversation lexicon for educated people from all classes . Volume 5, Ch. E. Kollmann, Leipzig 1842, p. 369.
- ↑ Johann Ehrenfried Vierklee: Mathematical Foundations of arithmetic and geometry . Weidmanns Erben and Reich, Leipzig 1767, p. 33.
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world . Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig, 1830, p. 91.