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Logger trimming logs at Wearyman Creek. Saw is in left foreground.
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Timber saw in front of cut logs in the snow.
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A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass.
"A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
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Ralph Fridley, part of the mining group, on the way out of the Glengarry Mine on June 1, 1940, in typical Colorado spring weather. Fridley is leaning on a two-man, cross-cut saw.
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Guy Barnes sawing a log. Darrell Barnes is seated on the log; Boyd Barnes is helping at the other end.
"Heat for the cabin was furnished by a black four-legged stove which burned wood for fuel. The wood was either sawed or chopped with an ax." -- Homestead Days in Colorado p.1
7. Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
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Ilene Ages Warren (wife of Bob Warren) standing next to the sawblade at the Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill at the end of Eagle St. next to the ball field.
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Ladonna Fair called this photograph "Castle Hunting Trips". Ladonna is sawing wood with her mother, Jessie, close by.
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This Valentine's Day card, featuring a small sweaty woodcutter, was sent to Dorothy Shryack by Miss Crawford on February 13, 1913. On the front of the card there is a short poem that reads: "There are lots of girls, and pretty, too, but the sweetest one I saw is ---you!"