TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



XI 



CHAPTER III. 



FELLING AND CONVERSION OF TDIBER. 

 Section L— Manual Labour. page 



1. General remarks 1'6 



2. Demands on the woodcutter .... ... 178 



3. Wages 181 



4. Organization of the labour-gang 187 



5. The forest-labour question 190 



Section II. — Woodcutters' Implements. 



1. Hewing implements 193 



2. Saws 199 



3. Tools for splitting wood 210 



4. Implements for extracting and splitting stumps and roots . . 212 



Section III.— Season foe Felling 219 



Section IV. — Methods of Felling. 



1. General account 



2. Different modes of felling 



3. Felling rules . 



228 

 225 



-PiOUGH Conversion of Wood. 



Section V. 



1. ilode of conversion .......... 244 



2. Timber assortments 248 



3. The work of conversion 252 



4. Removal of wood before conversion 263 



5. Occasional non-conversion of wood ....... 264 



5. General rules regarding conversion 264 



Section VI. — Sorting and Stacking Converted Material , 

 Section VII.— Clearing the Felling-Are.a.. 

 1. Explanation of the term . 



. 265 



2. Purpose of the clearance . 



3. Choice of a forest-depot . 



4. Material to be removed . 



5. ilodes of clearance . 



6. Season for clearing a felling-area 



7. General rules .... 



Section VIIL— Sorting the Converted Material and Fixing Sale- 

 Lots 



,, IX. — Estimating the Yield 



„ X. — Concluding the Business of Felling and Conver- 

 sion 



273 

 274 

 274 

 275 

 276 

 288 

 290 



292 

 299 



