St Nicholas [serial] . th, or caught under a turning log, or cut bythe teeth of the saws, or sadly maimed by thesplintered edge of a flying piece of slab. The ut-most precaution on the part of mill-owners can-not prevent many fatalities where there is somuch accident-inviting machinery. Let us hope wheels, one above and one below the head ofthe sawyer; the circular, which is fed by an-other carriage flying back and forth like anenormous shuttle; and the gang-saw, which isthe most rapid of all. The gang is in reality aseries of short, straight saws set vertically, andat a distance apart corresp
St Nicholas [serial] . th, or caught under a turning log, or cut bythe teeth of the saws, or sadly maimed by thesplintered edge of a flying piece of slab. The ut-most precaution on the part of mill-owners can-not prevent many fatalities where there is somuch accident-inviting machinery. Let us hope wheels, one above and one below the head ofthe sawyer; the circular, which is fed by an-other carriage flying back and forth like anenormous shuttle; and the gang-saw, which isthe most rapid of all. The gang is in reality aseries of short, straight saws set vertically, andat a distance apart corresponding to the widthof the lumber to be sawn. Sometimes thereare forty of them in a series, eating their waythrough the largest log in from five to sevenminutes, and leaving a huge pile of yellowboards as a proof of their enormous cutting-power. The head sawyer at this saw — as, in-deed, at all the saws—must be a man of soundjudgment; for he is regulating the cutting oflogs which represent many thousands of dollars,. THE GANG SAW, WHICH CUTS A LOG INTO MANY PLANKS AT ONE TIME. that our pine board, as we watch it pass throughthe mill, may receive no stain of blood upon itsfragrant surface. Three main kinds of saws are used in themills: the band, which is a belt of steel, aboutthirty feet long, passing around two broad and if he is not able to tell at a glance intojust what sizes of lumber the log should be cutin order to make it most profitable to the mill-owner, he will be an expensive man at anyprice. These head sawyers receive from sevento ten dollars per day for their work. 3Q THE STORY OF A PINE BOARD. [Nov. Itffil
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