. Elementary woodworking . Fig. 63. The Forest, Norway Spruce, Bavaria, Germany of a living tree which had roots, bark, leaves, and flowers,and that the -tree began life as a little sapling, which 51 52 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING grew taller and larger for years before it could be calleda tree, and that it was between fifty and a hundredyears old before it was large enough to cut down fortimber. The lumberman selects trees which have large, straighttrunks. They are usually cut with the ax, although the. Fig. 64. Felling a Tree first cut IS often made partially through the trunk with asaw. The bran
. Elementary woodworking . Fig. 63. The Forest, Norway Spruce, Bavaria, Germany of a living tree which had roots, bark, leaves, and flowers,and that the -tree began life as a little sapling, which 51 52 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING grew taller and larger for years before it could be calleda tree, and that it was between fifty and a hundredyears old before it was large enough to cut down fortimber. The lumberman selects trees which have large, straighttrunks. They are usually cut with the ax, although the. Fig. 64. Felling a Tree first cut IS often made partially through the trunk with asaw. The branches are then chopped off and the body ofthe tree cut into lengths convenient for handling. Theyare rolled into a stream and floated down the river to asawmill, or, in case there is no river near by, are cartedon sleds or wagons to the railroad and tlience to the mill. WOOD 53 The cutting of the trees is usually done in winter,the floating of the logs, or river driving as it is called,beginning with the breaking up of the ice in the driving is a very interesting and dangerous busi-ness. Logs will often get caught sidewise and the wholeriver from shore to shore become jammed so tightly
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