. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. 176 ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY made up of French-Canadians in the East, negroes in the South and miscellaneous foreigners in the Lake States and the West. Camps are roughly constructed of logs, and are temporary in character except in places in the South where the men live in box cars which are transported from one camp to another on log trains. About 60 men make up the usual lumber Fig. 34. — Skidding Logs by Steam Donkey Engine in Northern Idaho. Chutes are frequently used to facilitate the movement of logs from the woods to the railroad landing
. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. 176 ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY made up of French-Canadians in the East, negroes in the South and miscellaneous foreigners in the Lake States and the West. Camps are roughly constructed of logs, and are temporary in character except in places in the South where the men live in box cars which are transported from one camp to another on log trains. About 60 men make up the usual lumber Fig. 34. — Skidding Logs by Steam Donkey Engine in Northern Idaho. Chutes are frequently used to facilitate the movement of logs from the woods to the railroad landing. This timber was killed by a forest fire but it is still sound if logged in time. Felling and Bucking. — These operations usually go to- gether and the first consists of making an under cut with an axe on one side to direct the fall of the tree and then using a cross-cut saw to complete the cut. Formerly much valuable timber was lost in cutting high stumps especially in the West. 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 Moon, Frederick Franklin, 1880-1929; Brown, Nelson Courtlandt, 1885-. New York J. Wiley
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