Appendix D of The early iron industry of Furness and District by Alfred Fell, published in 1908
Bark peeler’s hut (H.Caldwell)
| Felling and cutting | 8d per cord | Set ashes | 1s 0d to 3s 3d per tree |
| Cording | 5d per cord | Ash or elm | 4d per foot |
| Ranking | 2d per cord | Oak | 9d to 11d per foot |
| Felling Poles | 4d per score | Yew | 1s 0d per foot |
| Felling oak and peeling bark | 8d, 9d, & 10d per day | Seal poles | 1s 2d each |
| Dressing and cutting bark | 1s 2d per quarter | Cart-stangs | 6d per pair |
| Getting hoop-staves | 4d per hundred | Oak rib-wood (ships) | 8d per foot |
| Riving laths | 4d per hundred | Oak laths | 3s 0d per 100 |
| Sawing ship-planks | 13s 0d per rood | Heart-laths | 3s 0d per 100 |
| Squaring timber | 2s 7d per ton | Sap-laths | 1s 0d per 100 |
| Chipping cooper-staves | 6d per hundred | Single Spikins | 4d per 100 |
| Making shovels | 4d each | Double Spikins | ______ |
| Riving and chipping spadeshafts | 2d each | Hoop-staves | 2s 6d per 100 |
| Cutting coal-wood | 1s 0d per cord | Axletrees | 4s 0d per dozen |
| Peeling bark | 2s 2d per quarter | Lin for pattern-moulds | ______ |
| Cutting and coaling | 7s 10d per dozen | Spade-shafts | 4s 0d per dozen |
| Coaling | 3s 6d per dozen | Lath nails | 3d per 100 |
| Riving and splitting spars | 3d & 4d per dozen | Lin Studs | ______ |
| Ash wood | 11s 6d to 13s 0d per ton | Wheel-timber | 4s 0d per gang |
| Oak, ash & liner poles | 7d to 1s 3d per dozen | Bark | 9s 6d per quarter |
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