 This simple and wasteful manner of making hoards has been still continued in some places to the present time. Peter the Great of Russia endeavoured to put a stop to it, by forbidding hewn deals to be transported on the river Neva. The saw, however, though...  Book of Trades Or Library of the Useful Arts - Page 3301818 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 582 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible 1 ; and if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued to the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...the trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible, and if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued in some... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1855 - 734 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible ; andjf it was found necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size.' This simple but wasteful process has continued in use down to a rather recent... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1857 - 508 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges, into as many and as thin pieces as possible ; and if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued, in some... | |
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