Logging With the A. E. F. 



BY SHIRLEY C. BRAYTON 

 (Continued From January) 



The logs we iv brought from the woods in 

 on the planked road and . unloaded on the 

 skids. A few were unloaded on a small log deck. These 

 could be run onto the carriage direct from the log deck 

 by means of skids. The others from the big log deck had 

 to be loaded on to a small car and brought in on the 

 deckerville track. The logs were hoisted off the car 

 by means of a Yale block and dropped on the carriage 

 which I described in a preceding paragraph. Small 

 wooden wedges and crude hooks held the log in place 

 while the first slab was removed. It was then turned 

 down on its flat side and sawn up, trusting to luck 

 that it wouldn't move while it was being sawn, as 

 there was no way of fastening it. They didn't move 

 much. The "off bearer" or "tail sawer" threw the 

 slabs and cants onto the table between the hea'dsaw 

 and the resaw. The slabs were edged to approximate 

 widths on the resaw. All widths from 2% to as wide 

 as possible were permissible. These edged slabs were 

 then thrown over to the second resaw where they were 

 sawn into slats or boards. They were then thrown 

 over to the trimmer where they were trimmed into 

 whatever length boards they would make from two 

 feet up in multiples of one foot. The narrow strips 

 which were from 2 3 /4 to 3 inches wide were cut up 

 into slats 18 inches long, for the purpose of making 

 duckboards. Any edged slabs that would make a 

 piece 2x2%x6 feet long w^ere made into runners for 



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