This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...stick. By practice they know about how far to measure out from the chain or compass lines; if they are not experienced it may be necessary for them to pace in from time to time, for a large error in the width of the strip would mean an error in the estimate. Such errors as they do make generally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...stick. By practice they know about how far to measure out from the chain or compass lines; if they are not experienced it may be necessary for them to pace in from time to time, for a large error in the width of the strip would mean an error in the estimate. Such errors as they do make generally average up pretty well. Now they may get a tree which is too far out but in a few minutes they miss one that is within the two-rod strip each man is supposed to measure. With care, the day's work will turn out quite well. The fourth member of the crew is called the tally man. He carries a note book in which he puts a dot for each tree of a given species and diameter. He generally walks along behind the compass man and between the caliper man and checks the measurement of the trees. The tally man generally has charge of the party and from his position can oversee the work of the other men. These strips should always be run up and down hill for the reason that a better average of the timber may be obtained in this way. The tallest forest trees and best stands of timber are always found in the valley bottoms where the soil is deep and the wash from the hillsides provides plenty of moisture. Upon the mountaintops where the soil is thin and dry the trees are short, scrubby and far apart; hence to get a fair average of the timber in a valley a strip from one mountaintop down the slope to the bottom and up the other side must be run. The distance that may be covered in a day depends largely on how close the trees stand and how hilly the country is. In dense forest like the spruce forests of Maine two and one-half miles or twenty acres actually measured, is a good day's work. If it has been decided to caliper one acre in ten, two hundred acres have been...
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Good Plus. No Jacket. 8vo. xvii, 315pp, index, glossary, appendix, bw ills. Or decorative green cloth with embossed design of trees. Title on spine worn, edges toned, some foxing, bottom corners worn, rear cover rubbed, prev owners name on ffep. A younger person's guide to forestry in America with emphasis on conservation and mangement.
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