. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. LUMBERING 175 gigantic redwoods and Douglas fir on the Pacific Coast, special logging machinery has had to be devised to haul in logs which were too heavy and unwieldy to be handled by horses or oxen. In the South cypress is usually deadened by girdling a year or more before cutting so the logs can be floated to the mill. In the swamps and in rough mountains,. Fig. 53. — Skidding Logs by Steam in Northern Hardwood Forest. A Clyde ground skidder in action. Logs may be hauled in by a steel cable for distances up to one mile. overhead cableways are st
. Elements of forestry. Forests and forestry. LUMBERING 175 gigantic redwoods and Douglas fir on the Pacific Coast, special logging machinery has had to be devised to haul in logs which were too heavy and unwieldy to be handled by horses or oxen. In the South cypress is usually deadened by girdling a year or more before cutting so the logs can be floated to the mill. In the swamps and in rough mountains,. Fig. 53. — Skidding Logs by Steam in Northern Hardwood Forest. A Clyde ground skidder in action. Logs may be hauled in by a steel cable for distances up to one mile. overhead cableways are stretched on which to bring in the logs to the railroad. Each logging operation presents diffi- culties of its own. Up to the present time the lumber business is the only large industry which has not applied scientific methods in operation. The labor is largely unskilled and cheap and is. 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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