. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A Mammoth Log—Showing How It was Sawn. in length, 17 feet over all, including the handles; 12 inches across the »ase and tapered uniformly throughout, its length to 10 inches at the jEJ^jfi ^ the steel blade 12 ga. in thickness, was manu- bj hand before. It took nearly two days to make a single cut the length A Log Too Large for Any Mill. A log so large that none of the many mills in the Northwest was capable of sawing it, with the result that the largest whip-saw eve
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. A Mammoth Log—Showing How It was Sawn. in length, 17 feet over all, including the handles; 12 inches across the »ase and tapered uniformly throughout, its length to 10 inches at the jEJ^jfi ^ the steel blade 12 ga. in thickness, was manu- bj hand before. It took nearly two days to make a single cut the length A Log Too Large for Any Mill. A log so large that none of the many mills in the Northwest was capable of sawing it, with the result that the largest whip-saw ever manu- factured had to be made to order and the work done by hand, will be one of the State of Washington's exhibits in the forestry building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle. No bit of timber like it was ever before seen at a World's Fair, and such a giant is not likely to again be dragged from its forest home to excite the wonder of the curious and studious who assemble at an exposition exhibit. The log, which is illustrated herewith, measures 10 feet 6 inches through the butt, and is of Douglas fir. The towering tree, of which it is only a section was logged by the English Logging Company in Skagit County s land of big timber, and forwarded to Seattle with great diffi- S^lfSSJ8 PTT* ?f 6V?Y faciHty- B was lo^ed over a Private toad to Alilltown, and then towed by two tugs to A Mammoth Log—Too Large for the Mills. to the nl^ aS-fiVe CUtS Were necessary> ten days had to be given up tothe actual sawing necessary to cut the log into the four sections deP lumb^Jdtte^e, B" **« ^ retail. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
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