"George" George@least wrote:


"Joseph Handy" wrote in message
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Great ideas. Thanks!

So green wood remains stable after turning? It won't shrink and
crack?

One last question, what's a skid?


If you cut it thin, it will distort, but it'll seldom crack, unless
you're _really_ dry. Tent with some newsprint to bring it down
slower. Keeps things damper underneath.

This piece, as you can see by the initial picture, was a chunk of
firewood split a year ago, so it was pretty dry to begin with.

Skidding is the process of getting the cut logs out of the woods.
Nowadays they no longer skid them along the ground, which I suppose
was the origin of the term, rather lift them with beasts like this, or
larger.
http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/qt/L...Lookup/Log_tim
ber_skidder.pdf/$file/Log_timber_skidder.pdf




They often put poles in/on the road to stabilize it as he

http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/caps7/00630.htm

And the current lifting equipment is called a Log Skidder.

Skidding was done when they couldn't get the rails close enough for
highline loading, or pre-railroads.