Wood
Poles
Picture to come.
Straight lengths of young wood, mostly cut from coppiced hazel, ash, alder and willow, which regrow from the stump after cutting and were harvested every ten to twenty years. Poles were used for fencing, hurdles, wattle walls, light rafters, tool handles and scaffolding, and as firewood and for charcoal.
Sources: buildingconservation.com
Made by
- Fell timber
- Cut coppice
Used to make
- Boil brine
- Charcoal burn
- Bole-smelt lead
- Fire pottery
- Fire bricks
- Fire tiles
- Burn lime
- Render tallow
- Bake
- Malt and brew
- Brew (alehouse, half batch)
- Boil pitch
- Make a stone hammer
- Forge a pit saw
- Forge a knife
- Forge a sickle
- Forge shears
- Make a wooden spade
- Make a pack saddle
- Forge an awl
- Forge a drawknife
- Forge a chisel
- Whittle a spindle
- Lash up crude bellows
- Bole-smelt lead from dressed ore
- Smelt tin in a peat hearth
- Fire glazed pottery
- Smelt lead at the ore hearth
- Smelt lead from dressed ore at the ore hearth
Used to build
- Charcoal clamp