Monday trivia

Several thoughts

The original crew of a commissioned ship would have used this road.

Luberjacks would take their naps on a _____ road.

A streetcar road.

Lee

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I don't want to walk one of these.

Some cardboard is described as this.

John

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One of then reminds me of an old pair of pants.

Another was common around here and much smoother-supposedly. Even have some roads that still have the name.

Now's not the time to be shy--

tell it like it is.

Don's answers I'm pretty sure I get. I have accounted for both.

John's answers I'm thinking one fits with my answers. (cardboard)

Lee's answers thus far I believe I have de-obscured one and possibly two (lumber jacks and streetcar)

By the time I get back home this evening we'll know. I do like that there are more names out there than I found. Good on ya.

Re: Monday answers

Gold forehead stars abound for Don, John, and Lee.

Plank road (commissioned ship) (Wouldn�t want to walk) (Many states have �Plank Roads�, in name at least, today)

Skid road (lumberjacks)

Corderoy road (pants) and possibly �corregated�. I never heard that term, but it�s close to what it looks like and also close in sound to corderoy

Roll out road

Nicholson Roads or wood block roads

Wooden rails might also be acceptable. Is this the streetcar answer? If I�m wrong let us know.

Sources: Text Book on Roads and Pavements p112, Frederick Putnam. Spaulding, Third Edition 1908, online Google Books �Types of Wood Roads� Provides Definition of Plank and Corderoy roads.

Title: Roll-out road coverings made of wood.

Personal Authors: Kazakov, A. K.

Author Affiliation: Politekh. Inst., Vologda, USSR.

Editors: No editors

Document Title: Lesnaya Promyshlennost'

Abstract:

The covering consists of short logs of aspen or poplar [Populus spp.] connected by steel wires running through holes drilled through the logs. It can be rolled out like a carpet on a surface roughly pre-levelled by a bulldozer.

This item of which I can find no English version translation (except the abstract) is as if you took a rolled up wood �snow fence� and mounted it on a bracket (similar to a toilet paper holder) so that it was in front of a truck or bulldozer (or, ahem, tank) and rolled it out in front of the vehicle as it moved forward. Apparently very good for shallow, swampy areas to get vehicles through in advance of engineers for more permanent roads.

Camac Street in Philadelphia, cubical wooden blocks placed on end grain as in butcher block. There were also hexagonal block end grain roads. Aside from the instability and lack of permanence of combinimg wood and earth, these dry and shrink and when they do get wet they are too slippery to walk on. Still, because wood end blocks were quieter than cobblestones they were placed around publick houses and clubs to keep down the noise. Philadelphia maintains a one or two block long, 6� wide, wood block road section. Samuel Nicholson, Boston, a roads person may be another name for this type of road.

(For a wood block road, check out: http://www.planphilly.com/node/3785 Scroll down to photos 3 and 4.

A skid road was one where large logs were cleared and pulled to a central location by teams or the steam Donkey. The term gradually came to mean a low rent, rough section. When houses were built for the lumber camps the name became skid row.

1. A track made of logs laid transversely about five feet apart that is used to haul logs to a loading platform or a mill.

For those who didn�t get the earlier answer it was for a Plank Road. Original crews of ships were called the �planks� of that ship. When a ship is retired, the original crew is permitted a plank from that ship. A nice tradition.