retting

Natural retting takes from one week to a month.

Retting is simply rotting as a result of dew, rain and bacterial action.

Mr. Retting said that most people who received a ticket through photo enforcement had missed the light by less than a second.

The presence of stalks in the bough-string stage indicates that retting is well underway.

Mr. Retting suggested that municipalities might increase grace periods.

Retting is the process of rotting away the inner stalk, leaving the outer fibers intact.

Among them, the water or microbial retting is a century old but the most popular process in extracting fine bast fibers.

"These are the fastest speeds we've ever observed," Richard Retting, the institute's senior transportation engineer, said in the report.

Field retting is laying the flax out in a large field, and allowing dew to collect on it.

More intense retting separates the fibre bundles into elementary fibres, that can be several centimetres long.

"The problem in Connecticut is there's no room for error," Mr. Retting said.

If the crop proved plentiful, his mill would require additional laborers to perform the retting and scutching.

Pond retting is the fastest.

Both Pond and Stream retting were traditionally used less because they pollute the waters used for the process.

Retting is the process of taking off the outer part of flax by laying flax in water.

When the retting is complete the bundles feel soft and slimy, The process can be overdone, and the fibres rot too.

"I disagree with the notion that yellow-signal timing should be standard and not reflect the needs of drivers," Mr. Retting said.

To reduce those numbers, Mr. Retting said, "I would gladly trade a small increase in rear-end crashes."

Our retting and scutching mill was constantly busy after last year's harvest, and additional weavers were hired on during the winter months.

When the retting is complete the bundles of flax feel soft and slimy, and quite a few fibers are standing out from the stalks.

In most cases, the fiber extraction process of bast fibers in water retting is done by the farmers while standing under water.

Natural water retting employs stagnant or slow-moving waters, such as ponds, bogs, and slow streams and rivers.

"So there may be a disconnect between drivers getting the most tickets and the drivers most likely to cause harm," Mr. Retting said.

Retting is the process of extracting fiber from the long lasting life stem or bast of the bast fiber plants.

Lows Cottage This building was originally a retting or rhetting cottage, later becoming a small farm with a byre attached.