Burma . le of theoperations of bringing the timber to market are combined by a timber-broker(forester, thiggaung). Teak cuts readily, though it blunts the tools very soon. There is littlewaste. Sawn planks are displacing bamboo for the better-class houses. Sawyersearn from one-half to one rupee a day. The indigenous carpenters tools were asmall adze {p^got), chisels and gouges {sank), awls {lun), and a rough saw {hlwa),besides d& and axe {paussem). The Burman adopted the Chinese plane lj>u^-baw, selecting-shave) with the Chinese straddle bench. The Englishcarpenters rule is also general. Wh
Burma . le of theoperations of bringing the timber to market are combined by a timber-broker(forester, thiggaung). Teak cuts readily, though it blunts the tools very soon. There is littlewaste. Sawn planks are displacing bamboo for the better-class houses. Sawyersearn from one-half to one rupee a day. The indigenous carpenters tools were asmall adze {p^got), chisels and gouges {sank), awls {lun), and a rough saw {hlwa),besides d& and axe {paussem). The Burman adopted the Chinese plane lj>u^-baw, selecting-shave) with the Chinese straddle bench. The Englishcarpenters rule is also general. When the impulse to good house-buildingwas given by the production of cheap planks, the immigrants from China gotthe whole of the Burmans have be-gun to oust them fromthe heavy carpenteringand from the joinery aswell. Ordinary Burmancarpenters earn | rupeea day, the better work-men I to IJ rupees aday, compared with theChinamans ij wood-work is left 263. binding the logs into 120 BURMA
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