Speaking o[ Conserving Timber--- Take a Look at These Pictures

Forest conservation is a subject dear to the hearts of most lumbermen in these times. It is brought about in a great variety of vi'ays, as those lvho read THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT can attest.

Here are trvo pictures showing in plain and understandable fashion modest forest conse:vation and rvood saving seldom mentioned in the average story.

One picture shon's a typical tree falling scene that took place in the 1890's in the Douglas Fir woods of Pope & Talbot, at l)ort Gamble, Washington.

The other shou's the modern cutting of another Fir tree of about the same size, this one being done r,vith power sarvs. the use of rvhich has become standard.

The old picture shou's a tall tree cutter standing on a rigged platform made by sticking a board in the side of the tree, and using a big cross-cut saw in that position. The plank on 'ivhich he stands is in the neighborhood of 8 feet from the ground. The cut he is making is from 3 to 4 feet higher than his feet, so the stump he is leaving is probably in the near neighborhood cf 1l feet high.

The other picture n'here the pou'er saw is being used shor,l's the cut being made betrveen 3 and 4 feet from the ground. Which means that this stump that will be left to rot will be 7 or B feet lou'er than the one in the other picture. Which rneans further that the olcl method of tree falling wasted someu'here around 3,000 feet of the best part of the tree. Based on the value of timlter today, the lou. stump left by the modern power saw saves a u.hale oI a lot of money to the operator.

There is probably no particular department of the lumber manufacturing business where more improvement has been accomplished through imDroved mechanics than in the falling of the timber in the woods. These trvo pictures illustrate that fact very graphically.

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