Patent ID: 7051444

Claim:
A measuring and marking apparatus to aid cutting of firewood, comprising in combination: an upstanding tubular body having a medial channel to carry an inverted aerosol can containing marking material, retaining means to prevent the aerosol can from moving axially upward within the medial channel, a handle to aid manual manipulation, and two diametrically opposed slots spacedly adjacent a bottom portion of the body to carry actuator means; a measuring wheel journaled in wheel forks carried by the body to extend spacedly adjacent therefrom at a first diametrically opposed slot, said measuring wheel having a protruding dog extending from a face surface, the protruding dog positioned to communicate with actuator means carried by body as the measuring wheel rotates, and adjustable friction means to bias wheel rotation; and actuator means carried in the opposed slots defined in the body, said actuator means defining a hole spacedly adjacent a first end portion to carry dispensing nozzle of an inverted aerosol can and an elongate leg at an opposing second end portion to extend adjacent the face surface of the measuring wheel to engage the protruding dog as measuring wheel rotates.