People started cutting down the tree in the America’s nearly as soon as they got off the boat. They used the lumber to construct they’re first houses, and other essential buildings. The fo

Today however logging is a very different process, involving technologies, such as chain saws and computers. In the modern cutting of trees they use a wide range on tool. The type of tree cutters used today depends on the type of terrain. If the area is relatively flat a mechanical feller called a shear is used to clear the trees. The shear has two blades that work like a pair of scissors, cutting through the trunk of the tree and carefully laying it on its side. The shear works very quickly, it can take as little as 30 seconds to cut a tree 8 inches thick. A shear working on level terrain can cut 25 cords of wood per day. Two men working with a chain saw can only clear about 4 cords of wood in the same amount of time. The chain saw has an advantage over the shear on the large trees located in the Pacific Northwest. Here the cutting blades of the shear cannot fit around the enormous trunks of a Douglas fir or a Redwood tree. The chain saws can slowly but surly make it all the way through the enormous trunk of these giant trees. Now unlike the days before all the technological advances in the field when the cutters fell a tree they carefully plan where to lay the trees down without crushing people or damaging other trees in the process. Next the limbs and branches of the tree are bucked. This is a way of saying they remove the excess limbs, which make moving the trees extremely hard. When the land is flat a grapple skidder is used to haul the trees to the landing. On slightly slopped land a tractor is used to move the logs. When logging on a slope with a greater incline a cable yarder is sometimes used. This involves hooking a pulley to the top of a tall tree close to where you want to move the log. The rope is then attached to a drum, which reels in the cable. The other end is attached to the tree to be moved, the cable is then brought in and so is the desired tree. This method can move large logs up to 500 feet. Once the logs are moved to the landing they are stacked and loaded onto trucks or railroad cars to be moved to the sawmill (logging book).

The preceding account of the logging industry has been an inquisition inspired in part by the movie and/or book Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson. I attempted to give an unbiased account of the logging industry, its history and present techniques and products produced by said industry. I hope it was enjoyable as well as informative, providing you with a new level of knowledge of a well know subject

The early loggers had a difficult job in cutting down the trees that were hundreds of times larger than they were. These men were charged with finding quick, efficient and safe ways of removing the trees. The early methods relied mainly on physical force of the loggers and their animals. To accomplish this the loggers would prepare the camp for the year before the Septembe

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