PIONEERING.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 57, 30 November 1937, Page 10

PIONEERING.

BIG

SMOKE.

Frequently dilficulty is experienced in completing a lashing owing to the rope used not being long enoiigh. It is advisable, therefore, to know befojehand the length of lashing required'for different types of timber. If lashings are cut to these lengths, properly whipped and stored . in' separa'te bags according .to their length, a great deal of subsequent trouble is saved. The colour of the wkipping at the ends can quite easily be used as a guide to their length by being dyed before being put on. The lengths of lashings depend mostIy on the size o'f spars to be lashed. As a rough rule the diameter of the spar in inches gives the length of the lashings in fathoms. Only the fignre-of-eight lashing -requires a longer length. A fathom is roughly the amount of rope that a full-grown man could measure and pass • out • with outstretched arms, and is - now taken to equal six feet. . . . . - • Ropes are •measured and described by their circumferenccs in inches, a ''three-inch 77 -rope being just under an inch in diameter., -The word frope77 is not usually- applied to anything less than one inch in circumference, smaller sizes being described as cord, Une, and so on. Cords are usually distinguished by the number of yarns — six, nine, twelve, etc. (From "Gilcraft7s Pioneerine,7U