. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Square Timber Cutting—Scoring the Sides the work of the logging operations of to-day. The trees were felled with an axe and as they were the choicest and largest of the trees to be found, the axeman had to be a man of great skill with his tool. When the trunk had been laid low and stripped of its branches and top, it was taken in charge by the scorers. If it was a good straight tree it would be handled entire, but if it had a crook or was defective in other ways it wo
. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Square Timber Cutting—Scoring the Sides the work of the logging operations of to-day. The trees were felled with an axe and as they were the choicest and largest of the trees to be found, the axeman had to be a man of great skill with his tool. When the trunk had been laid low and stripped of its branches and top, it was taken in charge by the scorers. If it was a good straight tree it would be handled entire, but if it had a crook or was defective in other ways it would be cut into two or more pieces. Shaky, twisted or eaty timber had to be cut up into pieces in this manner. After it had been decided how the timber was to be treated, the scorers made nicks in the bark with their axes, and then chopped off the bark between the nicks. The hewers, with broad axes, succeeded the scorers and finished the squaring process, putting on the timber a surface so fine that it could easily be planed. A capable broad-axe- man received high wages, as upon his skill depended, in a great mea- sure, the profit to be made out of the timber. The squared timber was floated in small rafts down the Ottawa and when it reached the St. Lawrence it was collected into large rafts and taken to Quebec where it was raised into vessels by means of chains and hooks at- tached to a windlass. The Open Fire Place or "Camboose" One of the chief characteristics of the lumbering camps in the square timber days, which has been done away with in the modern camps, was what was known as the '' camboose.'' The cooking for the lumberjacks was done in the middle of the log cabin around the sides of which were arranged the tiers of bunks in which the men slept. The smoke from the cooking escaped through a hole in a roof; at least that portion of it which did not float in among the men's sleep- ing bunks. Crude as this method of cooking seems, in the light of the large cook
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