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English Wood Measures

Wood is sold in England by the stack, skid, quintal, billet, and bundle. A stack is 108 solid feet, and usually piled 12 feet long, 3 feet high, and 3 feet wide. A quintal of wood is 100 lbs. A skid is a round bundle of sticks, 4 feet long. A one-notch skid girts 16 inches. A two-notch skid, 23 inches. A three-notch skid, 28 inches. A four-notch skid, 33 inches. A five-notch skid, 38 inches.

A billet of wood is a bundle of sticks 3 feet long, and girts 7, 10, or 14 inches, and these bundles sell by the score or hundred. A score is 20, and comes from the count by tally, or marks. Faggots of wood are bundles of brush, 3 feet long, 2 feet round. A load of faggots is 50 bundles.