Piles of cordwood and freight, the latter in boxes, barrels, and crates, flanked the landing on three sides; several kinds of new wagons in various stages of assembling were scenes of great activity.
The Indian said there were bluffs near the post, and they wouldn't haul their cordwood farther than necessary!
It was dangerous to venture as far as a neighboring bluff, where fuel had been cut; Benson and the agent, who were hauling cordwood home, narrowly escaped from death one evening in the suddenly freshening storm.
What with steps and stairs and passages and piles of cordwoodfor the engine,--oh no, I guess Harland and Wolff didn't build her.
Donald, from the top of the pine, saw the devastating berg sweep away the cordwoodand disappear down-stream.
But when the Kid laughed harshly and turned on his heel, Davy flung himself upon the piles and began frantically to toss the cordwoodback from the bank.
They gathered their children together, and all the produce they could assemble, and traveled to town on the sailing vessel of some older relative or neighbor who might be taking a cargo of oysters or cordwood to market.
In the winter, and winters were very cold in the Neck then, she went into the woods and cut enough cordwood to keep them warm.
Farther inland men turned to the forests where they cut cordwood and railroad ties.
The Murchisons at one time kept a cow in the barn, till a succession of "girls" left on account of the milking, and the lane was useful as an approach to the backyard by the teams that brought the cordwood in the winter.
On the fourth side of the square loads of hay and cordwood demanded the master mind, but small matters of fruit, vegetables, and poultry submitted to feminine judgement.
Considerable quantities ofcordwood were piled at the stations along the railway and were being loaded on the cars.
There were clear evidences of periodic cutting and considerable, amounts of cordwood split from timber a foot through were being brought to the stations on the backs of cattle.
The work never slackens, except in winter, when you sit shivering beside the stove, if you're not hauling in building logs or cordwood through the arctic frost.
There's a shack where two fellows cuttingcordwood camp.
Keep my horses hauling cordwood through the winter, and the only team I have in the stable is ordered by a drummer for to-morrow.
It was hard to tell which of the dim avenues that kept opening up was the trail; the state of the short scrub could no longer be used as a guide, for the cordwood cutters had not penetrated so far with their sled.
Much of the growth is practically inaccessible, and the trunks are too small to tempt bark peelers, and cordwood cutters find plenty of material more convenient.
It rates high in fuel value, and the many large and crooked limbs make the tree an ideal one, from the cordwood cutter's viewpoint.
Cordwood cutters find it valuable where it abounds in sufficient quantity, and it has been burned for charcoal for iron foundries and blacksmith shops.
A hundred and fifty miles off the San Diego coast a few Torrey pines grow on the islands of Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, and owing to their isolated situation they bid fair to escape the cordwood cutter for years to come.
It is cut for cordwood in New England and makes good fuel.
Cordwood cutters are the most constant peril to good fuel trees in California; but many a canyon is safe from their invasions, because of lack of roads.
Cordwood cutters have stripped the last tree from large areas where much once grew.
There the most magnificent oaks rear their crowns in security, while trees of inferior size and character, which grow on exposed slopes and flats, fall before the cordwood cutter, and go to the ricks in village woodyards.
Cordwood constitutes the most important use for California live oak.
In central California, twenty or thirty years ago, it was not unusual to haul this cordwood twenty-five miles to market.
In that case the trunks are left to decay, unless they happen to be convenient to a cordwood market.
Though cordwood cutters may strip the large trees from the hills and canyons, scrub growth may be expected to continue, particularly on high mountains, and in ravines where roads cannot be built.
The branches are crooked and when cut into cordwood the ricks are so open that it is a common saying in the region that "you can throw a dog through.
It affords a pretty good class of fuel for camp fires, but cordwood cutters cannot make much out of it.
That is, as the pressure from above increased, owing to the workings being carried deeper, stronger stays and supports were necessary than cordwood or saplings supplied.
Isak had still a season's yield of cordwoodand timber to sell in the village, and the herring fishery had been rich all round the coast, so there was plenty of money to buy wood.
He had stacks of cordwood to pay with, and some building bark from last year's cut, not to speak of heavy timber.
He was, by profession, a carpenter and joiner, having learned the art while cutting cordwood on the Missouri bottoms, near Omaha, for the Collins Brothers.
You can very easily use our machine in this way if you have cordwood on hand that you wish to saw up into suitable lengths for firewood.
The boy at the right in the picture is sawing up cordwood in a buck frame.
He saw that the sea-water had not harmed him; it was the cordwood and wreckage that had crushed the breath out of him.
The trail opened abruptly on the clearing where lay my recently acquired cordwood with my five barrels of whiskey concealed in its midst.
On our way down we built breastworks of cordwoodalong the bulwarks of the boat.
King rallied a portion of his battery behind a pile of cordwood on the dock, and made a determined stand against the enemy until he fell with a bullet through his ankle, which shattered the bone.
It gets dark and dirty from the horses and the dirt off the cordwood and maybe some coal the farmers take home, and there are wisps of hay all along, rubbed off loads when they passed other teams.
The farmers over in Illinois make the road to bring over cordwood and hay and stuff, because they can bring it over on the ice free and it costs twenty-five cents a load when the ferry is running.
Drinkwater was obliged to throw overboard a load of cordwood to make room for the rescued passengers and crew and their possessions.
The crew and passengers were rescued and brought to St. John in a sloop of Captain Drinkwater's, the captain consenting to throw overboard his load of cordwood to make room for the rescued party and their possessions.
Generally speaking the day of large farmhouse fireplaces capable of receiving cordwoodis past.
Cordwood cut in two is easily handled; so that a 30-inch width is about the minimum for farmhouses where wood is used for fuel.
The tending of fires usually falls to the housewife, and cordwood is a heavier weight than she should handle and can not be stored near at hand.
True, there was cordwoodto split in abundance; and splitting cordwood is no child's play along the frozen shores of Lake Ontario.
It was dangerous to venture as far as a neighbouring bluff where fuel had been cut, and one evening Benson and the agent, who were hauling cordwood home, narrowly escaped from death in the suddenly freshening storm.
The Indian said there were bluffs near the post and they wouldn't haul theircordwood farther than necessary.
I hoisted a length of cordwood upon my shoulder and passed aboard.
Out of the grayness ahead a slip loomed ghostly in the dawn, tier on tier of cordwood stacked on the rude wharf; upreared on rows of piling, it seems to my juvenile fancy like a monster centipede creeping out to us over the smooth water.
By and by I rapped my hand smartly against some hard object as I cleft the water, and gripping it I found myself the richer by a four-foot stick of cordwood on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
But the handling of these big timbers was slow work and so night fell before any of the ties or cordwood could be sent down the chute.
Do you happen to remember that the contractor who is to pay you boys for your ties and cordwood and bridge timbers, is named Latrobe?
The railroad ties were so heavy that it required two boys to each to handle them comfortably, and the supply of cordwood was large enough to tax all the industry of the camp to complete the work before six.
I have quite all the money I want," he explained, "and so the ties and timbers and cordwood that I may cut will be counted as your own.
They had sent down the mountain every tie they were permitted by their contract to furnish; they had sent down many noble bridge timbers and greatly more cordwood than they had expected to cut.
We'll burn full length cordwood in our fireplace, and we'll make room for plenty of it in front of a big back log.
They sent down the mountain innumerable ties and all the cordwood that the trees yielded after the ties were cut.
Between now and six o'clock we've got to send down all the ties that we've got ready, and all the cordwood besides.
I propose that instead of cutting down trees you devote yourself to-day to making cordwood out of the unused parts of the trees we cut to build our house with.
They were sending down the mountain more ties, more cordwood and many more of the high-priced bridge timbers than they had expected to send.
But Jack," broke in little Tom, "how are we to estimate the amount of cordwood we send down the chute?
So far as I'm concerned you're welcome to go round the mounting an' chop all the railroad ties an' cordwood you choose.
She saw Givens stagger; heard the heavy piece of cordwood thud to the floor; saw Givens plunge backward through the door to land in the big drift outside.
He held a heavy piece of cordwood in one hand, and as he entered the door he paused for an instant, plainly blinded by the light and the snow.
