Shaft (unit)
Bundles of branches, called waves in the Black Forest
With wave a volumetric was in the timber industry called. The measure was reserved for brushwood . The delivery took place in shock . The bundle consisted of quantities of wood of a certain size and length. The brushwood was non-splittable and the cheapest firewood . In the forests, this wood was classified into up to five groups according to the trunk thickness. The chosen measure, including the free delivery, had to be the same in the forest.
- 1 wave = 3 feet in circumference and variable in length from 5½ to 6 feet
In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, for example, the shaft was determined by inches . The feet and inches were based on the Frankfurt values.
- 1 shaft = 10 inches in circumference and 50 inches in length
The metric shaft for a class of sticks was 7 to 14 centimeters in diameter
- 1 wave = 1 meter circumference (about 32 centimeters diameter) and 1 meter length; Delivery was preferably made in 100 waves.
literature
- August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 442
- Georg Kaspar Chelius, Johann Friedrich Hauschild, Heinrich Christian Schumacher: Measure and weight book. Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 196