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  2. AUSTRALIANITIES

    This time I am dealing with the pitsaw pioneers of Australia. The sawing, like every other industry almost, had its origin in the forests ...

    Article : 142 words
  3. Looking Backward.

    THE proposal to erect a memorial to Explorer Sturt at Wellington is a good one, but the committee is in error in saying that he started from ...

    Article : 242 words
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  6. THEN AND NOW.

    Those were the days of limited capital and unlimited energy, when mechanical facilities were few, before the flashing circular-saw had ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. THE SONG OF THE SAW

    They foiled in the heat, in the wind and cold, The hardy sawyers in days of old; One man above on the log, below ...

    Article : 296 words
  8. OLD AND NEW MITCHELL'S CREEK.

    Some months ago, when writing ton the above, I closed the account at the old pumping site, where the water was obtained to supply the ...

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  9. PRICE OF TIMBER

    At Connelly's Bush and Lord's Bush, ten miles from Sydney, they had no distance to haul the logs— not at first, at any rate—and as ...

    Article : 185 words
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  11. THE SAW-PIT

    The saw-pit took about a day to erect, with its heavy cross-pieces or "side-strikes," as the sawyers called them, and the skins and transoms. ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. DRIFT TO THE COAST

    The lure of gold took many of the old saw pitters away for a time, but many of them returned to the pit and made more success there than on ...

    Article : 146 words
  13. SAWING THE LOG

    The man on top had the heavier work, owing to his doing most of the lift, but the chap below often fared badly when, in windy weather ...

    Article : 208 words
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