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Drag saw putting in the back cut. Drag saws weighed up to 250 pounds and supplemented the hand saws. They were first used at Union Lumber company in 1940-41, but were found too heavy to move from place to place

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Title: Drag saw putting in the back cut. Drag saws weighed up to 250 pounds and supplemented the hand saws. They were first used at Union Lumber company in 1940-41, but were found too heavy to move from place to place
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1940 and 1960?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View 19 of set of 105 prints.
2011-1502.
Felling timber with drag saw 1940 -- verso.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation Archives;
Reproduction from original negatives in Georgia-Pacific Corporation Archives, Portland, Oregon. Please credit Georgia – Pacific.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001443292CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Union Lumber Company--Photographs
Lumber industry--California--Mendocino County
Loggers
Saws
Mendocino County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mendocino County
Mendocino County (Calif.)

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