Bill figured that he had nearly fifteen million feet down when he called off his sawyers and ordered the clean-up.
The ground was still bare of snow, but the sawyers were "laying them down," and the logs were banked at the skidways.
And now, as boss, he bullied the sawyers who could not equal those records--and hated those who could.
And in the woods I have hundreds of swampers, skidders, and sawyers who will always be swampers, skidders and sawyers.
Then, for conspiring to defraud certainsawyers by shading their cut.
It's like this: The sawyersgits paid by the piece--the more they cut, the more pay they git.
We are going to return that money to the sawyers who have it coming--but not yet.
Each pair of sawyers has their mark they put on the logs they cut, an' the scaler puts down every day what each pair lays down.
As early as 1821, Shreve had invented a device for removing snags and sawyers from river beds.
More unprejudiced, and I must add, very intelligent and credible persons have informed me that they have done so, and found the report of the sawyers abundantly confirmed.
He had served the term of his transportation, and had for a considerable time been employed in the direction of the carpenters and sawyers at this place.
Each morning they awoke to the hack-hack-hack of the sawyers and the steady grating of the log saw, the twitter of the donkey engine and the volcanic remarks with which the bull-puncher was urging his team forward.
When it had eaten a third of the way through the giant trunk, the sawyers began on the opposite side, nearly as high as the top of the kerf, resting the long instrument on pegs driven into two holes that had been bored for the purpose.
A private, of the 63rd regiment, killed by natives: two sawyers speared, one of whom died of his wounds.
Of course, you will go to theSawyers rejoicings, Kitty, and put on your pretty, and good behaviour?
They therefore rode leisurely along, and approached "Industry" (as theSawyers had christened their place) just as the sun was sinking in the west.
These were quickly felled, and thesawyers were soon at work cutting planks, keels, and all the necessary wood for boat-building.
A party of sawyers with a small escort of soldiers were settled in a camp about three miles from my station, as the distance was too great for a daily return from their work.
Then he sets the sawyers to work, who, with the mould-pieces always at hand, shape the large trunks to the required form.
To the mouth of this impromptu canal, then, the sawyers brought the logs one by one, and they were made, with very little guiding, to shoot through the passage with speed and precision.
Them bulldozers and power saws don't help you sawyers much--not in this camp anyway.
They walked closer to the big pine tree as two muscular sawyers started to make the undercut that would determine the direction the tree would fall.
They questioned Yakov first of all, and he testified that on the Monday Matvey had gone to Vedenyapino to confess, and that he must have been killed by the sawyers who were working on the line.
Before the great ikon, painted in glaring colours on a background of gold, stood the crowd of railway servants with their wives and children, and also of the timbermen and sawyers who worked close to the railway line.
This was no easy matter, for the pit-sawyers had deserted.
Young Mr. Migley had come, with a gang of sawyers and axemen, to dethrone the Emperor and take possession.
Soon the sawyers put their wedge in the slit and smote upon it.
On this a solid platform of two-inch planks had been laid by the sawyers and at intervals of three feet long, thin stakes, sharpened at the top, had been driven deeply into the ground just at the ends of the excavation.
They went to the tent and got the biggest of the tarpaulins lying there, and taking it to the two seven-foot sawhorses which the Indian sawyers had used.
The Sawyers 60 In the South Kensington Museum VIII.
The sawyers and the other workmen were overdoing their unconcern.
The sawyerssaid they could feel the ship straining.
Some trade in it was established with the Maoris; and little communities of English sawyers settled here and there along the coast of New Zealand.
He would fight and brawl with any sawyers or gum-diggers that might be hanging about; so that 'Karl's black devil of a chum' was no welcome sight at either settlement.
Most of the trees of this colony owe their names to the sawyers who first tested their qualities; and who were guided by the colour and character of the wood, knowing and caring nothing about botanical relations.
After "falling" a tree, thesawyers mark off and saw the trunk into log lengths, Fig.
As soon as the saw is well within the trunk, the sawyers drive iron wedges into the kerf behind it, partly to keep the weight of the trunk from binding the saw, and partly to direct its fall.
Following the choppers, sawyers were cutting sizable timber into logs, piling small trees with the brush; behind them a stumping outfit practised rough dentistry upon the road-bed.
Growling and grumbling, the camp distributed itself--teamsters to feed and rebuild smudges, choppers and sawyers to the grindstone and filing-benches.
While choppers and sawyers cached tools under brush away from rusting dews, teamsters dropped bows and yokes, and all followed the patient ox-teams down the right of way.
The general employment of the convicts was now as follows: Clearing away ground for cultivation and other necessary work 30 Sawyers sawing scantlings, and boards for buildings 2 2 free.
During this month we had heavy gales of wind, with some intervals of fine weather, and the rain becoming frequent, I ordered sheds to be built over the saw-pits, that the sawyers might work without interruption.
This business being compleated, the sawyers and carpenters began to erect a house for Lieutenant Cresswell, of eighteen feet long, by 12 feet wide, with a back part nine feet square.
Six men were to cut the timber down on an acre of ground in one week: six men to clear away and turn up an acre of ground fit for receiving seed, in twenty-eight days: two sawyers to saw one hundred feet of sawing each day.
The sawyers sawing, the others employd as yesterday--The horse keeper came home & reported that three of his horses have strayed.
Men employed as yesterday, but on account of the bad weather, both the wood cutters and sawyers were stopped a considerable time.
The sawyers brought home another log for a few more boards.
The sawyers squaring two trees for plank to make a stern box for the boat timber.
The sawyers got on pretty well, but unfortunately one of the logs which we had so much trouble getting, turns out to be rotten in the heart, it was sound at both ends.
Two of the men employed covering the dwelling house with mats, the sawyers squared a log for boards to make a stearing box, the others cutting cord wood.
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