284 THE YOUNG FAKMER's MANUAL. 



steady the saw. Let a tree be sawed about half off on one side, 

 in the direction it is designed to fall the tree ; and then saw on 

 the opposite side, and drive wedges into the kerf as fast as the 

 saw goes in, to keep the tree from swaying and pinching the 

 saw, and from falling in a wrong direction. If a tree be large, 

 three wedges should be driven in ; and the saw should be worked 

 straight across the tree, and not all round it, lest it fall to one 

 side and break the saw. 



388. Let the tyro remember, before a large tree is felled, to 

 take the team and haul three or four small logs or sticks of tim 

 ber, fifteen or twenty feet long, for the tree to fall on. Never 

 trust to a few rails, or a little pole or two ; for a heavy tree will 

 surely crush or bury such trash in the ground ; and then, before 

 the tree can be sawed or worked up, there must be tugging and 

 prying, and time enough spent very disadvantageously, to have 

 got the team and hauled a score of logs for a tree to fall on. 

 Let trees be kept up well from the ground ; because it is far 

 easier to let logs down than it is to raise them a few inches after 

 a tree has fallen. When a chain cannot be put under a log to 

 roll it over, hitch the grapple-hook to it. (See Fig. 72. See 

 How TO HANDLE A CROSS-CUT SAW, Par. 648.) 



