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Early modern England measured firewood in terms of billets and bavins. A billet, [24] like a bavin, was a piece of kindling wood. [25] The 16th C standardised a billet as three foot four inches in length, and ten inches around (for open fires); and a bavin as three foot long and two feet round (a chunkier log, often used for ovens). [26]
New South Wales introduced its scheme in 2017 [128] and was quickly followed by Australian Capital Territory [129] and Queensland [130] in 2018, Western Australia in 2020, [131] and Victoria late 2023. [132] Collected containers have been treated both domestically and overseas. [5]
The primary traffic was sawn timber and firewood, and many sawmills were located adjacent to the railway. Farming families toiled to clear the huge trees and sow pasture. However, many had given up by the 1920s and 1930s because of wet weather, weeds, rabbits, scrub regrowth, difficult access to markets, and the impact of the Great Depression.
Jindalee National Park was initially declared a forest reserve in 1877 and in August 1918 it was reclassified as a state forest. [1] In January 2011, the park was reserved under the National Park Estate (South-Western Cypress Reservations) Act (2010) to protect remaining areas of cypress pine woodlands, which have been extensively cleared across New South Wales.
Oct. 26—The Forest Supervisor's office in Willows reopened to the public on Monday and is now offering free firewood permits this year. "Due to the amount of hazard tree abatement completed this ...
Firewood with a moisture content below 20 per cent by weight can burn efficiently. This is the "free" moisture content absorbed in the wood fibers, and does not include the chemically-bound hydrogen and oxygen content. Moisture content can be reduced by outdoor air-drying ("seasoning"), for a period of several months in summer weather.
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In the United States and Canada, firewood is usually sold by the cord, 128 ft 3 (3.62 m 3), corresponding to a woodpile 8 ft wide × 4 ft high of 4 ft-long logs. The cord is legally defined by statute in most U.S. states. A "thrown cord" is firewood that has not been stacked and is defined as 4 ft wide × 4 ft tall × 10 ft long.