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Oakes Lumber Company

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: JBM181
Category: Lumbering; Tools / Equipment
Description: Two men called "fellers" are using a cross-cut saw to fell the tree. It would take about half an hour to cut down a tree this size. Every fifth tooth of this saw was a "raker," which dragged sawdust out of the cut.
Date: March 1886
Source: PSPL
Physical Attributes: 11.6cm x 19.2cm; b/w photograph
Photographer: J.B. Miller
Keywords: logging; lumbering; felling; cutting; saw; crosscut; operations; tools; equipment; raker; woodcutting; logs; sawlogs; tree; timber;
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