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be taken out at once to the nearest roadside or large blank and 

 out up there. The same thing must be done in coppice coupes, 

 when the time, before the new re-growth makes its appearance, is 

 very limited. So also in the case of transport by water ; the pieces 

 should be taken out as long as possible and cut up only on arrival 

 at destination. 



AeTICLE 2. FUETHER CONVERSION OF TIMBEE WITH THE SAW. 



No reference will be made here to sawing by machinery, which 

 is of too exceptional a character in India. 



The first thing to do is to rough-square the logs in order to be 

 able to fix them firmly enough for sawing. The amount of squar- 

 ing required is of the very slightest, and may often be reduced to 

 merely dressing one side flat enough to lie evenly on the trestles. 

 When the contrivance represented in Fig. 54 is used to support 



Fig. 54. 



Delhi Sawyer's triangular tresUe. 



the log, it will suffice to trim off only all prominent irregulari- 

 ties. 



Next, the lines along which the saw must cut should be marked 

 with a string in the same way as for rough-squaring. The section 



