Daily Archives: March 9, 2009

Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber's Term of the Week: Busheler”

Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Busheler”