Day work (peat)
Tagwerk was a German measure for the extraction of peat .
The peat that had been cut out was placed in beaters to dry. Each loft was four sticks long and one stick wide. Eight of these strokes were a day's work . For stroke, the stacking for drying, and the terms were dike pond and Dyk used because the stack cross-section to that of a dike was similar. Other stacking forms were the blocks (wall-like in a square), the pieces, rings and Bülte (beehive-like).
Seven Klem high and thirteen to fourteen Klem wide - the length was twelve stories - was the complete structure . The stick was calculated to be eight feet (Rhineland). Depending on the stacked amount, there was the half-work, three-quarter work and, if three quarters were missing, the quarter-day work.
- 1 day's work = 2048 square feet = 8192 peat / sod
- 1 square foot = 4 peats
The day's work was dependent on the gate and was called Pütte / Pütt .
- sucked Grassland peat: 1 bag = 4 feet high, 6 feet wide, 4 feet deep
- Raised bog : 1 pütte = 9 to 10 feet wide, 5 feet deep, 6 floors long
literature
- Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 186, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1845, p. 234.
- Joachim Heinrich Campe : Dictionary of the German Language, Volume 4, Schulbuchhandlung, Braunschweig 1810, p. 852.