rodgers white
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2016
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
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- China
Hi there. Would you please proofread the following text? Any help would be appreciated.
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After preparing the ground to build on, the next step was to send teams of timber cutters out to hew timber from the fallen trees, those least broken and or shattered, for building their houses and public places, etc. One group would hew the trees while another would cut and size them to suit various building designs Gan had given them. Gan had not only designed the houses but had listed the amount and size of the timber needed. This meant the timber cutters could stack the wood for each building together.
The timber couldn’t be put to purpose immediately though, it had to be seasoned first, which usually meant leaving it outside to dry for a year, but Gan came up with a way to do it faster. The timber would be stacked as usual but in a grid arrangement with other stacks, and fires would be placed at intervals in the gaps between each stack to warm the air around them, which would dry the wood more quickly. Of course, the downside was that the fires had to be attended to, day and night, not only to keep them going but to make sure that the timber itself did not catch fire. The upside was that it was a useful way to get rid of all the excess wood debris.
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After preparing the ground to build on, the next step was to send teams of timber cutters out to hew timber from the fallen trees, those least broken and or shattered, for building their houses and public places, etc. One group would hew the trees while another would cut and size them to suit various building designs Gan had given them. Gan had not only designed the houses but had listed the amount and size of the timber needed. This meant the timber cutters could stack the wood for each building together.
The timber couldn’t be put to purpose immediately though, it had to be seasoned first, which usually meant leaving it outside to dry for a year, but Gan came up with a way to do it faster. The timber would be stacked as usual but in a grid arrangement with other stacks, and fires would be placed at intervals in the gaps between each stack to warm the air around them, which would dry the wood more quickly. Of course, the downside was that the fires had to be attended to, day and night, not only to keep them going but to make sure that the timber itself did not catch fire. The upside was that it was a useful way to get rid of all the excess wood debris.