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> Most of the articles and references I
have see have shown fairly small diameter wood being used for coaling.<
Surely this is a practical problem. Coaling a large trunk would take
forever, as would splitting it up before coaling it. In earlier times it
would make even more sense to use small wood. The labour needed to fell and
transport large timber would be unreasonable when small wood would do.
Coppicing is surely as old as chopping wood. Our forebears would surely
have noticed that they could come back in a few years and chop the same
tree. I think this could account for the re-use of Iron age sites, smelting
or domestic.
Peter
Re small wood for making charcoal. It has been known for a
very long time that the charcoal made from a branch of a tree
makes better and harder charcoal than that from the trunk of the
same tree, but it is only in modern times that this was shown to because of the
smaller ray structure in yyounger wood.
the trunk of the same tree.
Ned.
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