Word: crosscutting
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Cascade Mountains in Oregon's Willamette (rhymes with damn it) National Forest, Engineer Flynn's power saws last week stood a conclusive test. Called in to fight a forest fire, the Forest Service took along two power saws, 90 fallers armed with axes and ordinary crosscut saws, pitted them against each other...
...trees grown hard from standing) in the path of the fire, knocked them over like tenpins, one every eight minutes. (Average thickness: 44 in.) Regular fallers, working in crews of two, averaged one snag every two hours. After 14 hours of fire fighting, the score stood: 90 men with crosscut saws, 320 snags; six men with power saws, 220 snags...