the duckboards. Xo wane was permissible on either 

 the runners or the slats for the duckboards. The 

 large cants that came to the second resaw were sawn 

 into standard of narrow guage cross ties or 3 and 5 

 inch road plank according to how it was planned by 

 the head sawer. The standard cross ties were 6x8x8 

 feet long. The narrow guage ties were 4x6x4 or 8 

 feet long. The 8 foot ones were sawn in two making 

 two ties. Later the narrow gauge ties were made 

 41/2 feet long ; after that no 4 inch cants could be made 

 from 8 foot logs and as a result a considerably larger 

 number of boards were sawn. The road planks were 

 made from 9 foot logs, and were at first made 5 

 inches thick and any width from 5 up to 9 inches. A 

 change in orders made it permissible to saw them any 

 width up to the capacity of the saw. which was about 

 20 to 22 inches. A still later order reduced the widths 

 to 5 inches and the thickness to 3 inches. Outside of 

 special orders these types made up our cut. The cants 

 were dragged .and shoved through the resaws by main 

 strength. One man stood in front of the saw and 

 shoved while the other stood behind it and hooked a 

 "Pickaroon" onto the cant and braced his feet and 

 pulled. The cants would pinch and the saw would 

 get hot and start to wobble and run off to one side ; 

 then one would stop pulling or pushing and throw 

 water on the saw with a pail until it got cooled off 

 and then the process would be repeated until event- 

 ually the cut was made. Then the man behind the 

 saw would shove the rest of the cant back and in 

 case a tie had been sawn off he would throw the tie 

 on the skids. As a standard cross tie of green oak or 



