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PRUNING 



and the narrowness at the point of this saw shown will be 

 appreciated by the orchard renovator who gets into a narrow 

 place. The specifications of the saw will be found beneath the 

 picture. In developing this saw the large type of tooth was first 

 tried ; this is known technically as the lumberman 's tooth, and is 

 shown in the cut of the two-edged saw. This tooth was tried 

 because it seemed reasonable that a large tooth, on a saw of this 



FiQ. 60. } a. 61. Fig. 62. 



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Fig. 60. — A good saw for small trees. It is 14 inches long, three inches wide at the butt, 



with seven teeth per inch. 

 Fig. 61. — An excellent saw for heavy pruning. It is 26 inches long, 6 inches wide at the 



butt, 1 inch wide at the tip and has five teeth per inch. 



Fig. 62. — A good saw for ordinary pruning. It is 24 inches long, 4 inches wide at the butt, 



1 inch wide at the tip, with five and one-half teeth per inch. 



type, would cut faster than a small one, but in actual orchard 

 work it was found that it required more effort to cut off a 

 branch with the coarse-toothed saw than with the finer type. 

 The saw simply did not have weight enough to carry such 

 heavy teeth. 



The second and third saws are intended for use on trees 

 which have been well cared for and regularly pruned and which 

 therefore do not need to have any very large branches taken out. 



