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Elementary woodworking (1903)

Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 65

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Fig. 08. A Modern Gang Saw — Interior of Modern Sawmill55 56 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING spiked shoes and are armed with long poles having sharpsteel points. When such a jam breaks up, the crashingof the logs and rush of water can be heard for miles. Having finally reached the mill, the logs float in… … Fig. 69. A Modern Sawmill The boom consists of logs chained together andstretched across the river just as a fence is built onland to inclose cattle. The sawmill of to-day is a mass of automaticmachinery, and after the log enters it is not touched

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