"G. Ross" wrote in news:ucudndhPZMqVfcnInZ2dnUU7-
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Electric Comet wrote:

do not know much about felling trees but i suppose they cleaned up
the bottom cut on the log to meet the 20 foot mark or so

but the stump portion that is visible seems to also be cleaned

https://imgur.com/iY73ujp

maybe the photo just does not show enough and the stump is ragged
but it does seem like it is cleaned up

maybe they do that just to make it easier to haul the logs out

interesting photo no matter what

Musta been a honking big chainsaw! ;)

Date's 1915, so all that cutting would have been with
handsaws...

To EC's point, there's no garauntee the stump in the
foreground has any connection to the logs. Obviously
the trunk has been cut to convenient lengths for
transport (and, as you note, the end of the log cut
clean), however that would not necessarily be done
where the tree was felled.

In that era, the popular practice was to find a stout
tree more or less in the middle of the area to be logged,
strip off the branches, strap some blocks on near the
top, and set a winch and steam donkey engine at the
bottom. The loggers would haul a line thru the blocks
and out to the tree they'd felled, and the winch would
then pull it back thru the forest. At the winch site
they'd then cut it to length to be hauled to the mill
by ox-team or railroad.

John