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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
With how hard people worked back then, if they did have chainsaws there wouldnt be s tree still standing.
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The "Woodsman" aka loggers of the early days didn't have chainsaws but they did have crosscut saws also known as misery whips and Swedish violins with which they nearly denuded Minnesota and other parts of the North East of pine trees. My paternal Grandfather left Minnesota in 1906 and came West to Idaho partly because the woods were playing out back there. My folks left Idaho in 1938 and came to Oregon because there was work here. My dad was a "timber faller" as were many of my uncles. I have a WW-2 era picture of my dad and his partner bucking a tree into logs with a crosscut saw, chain saws didn't really get into general use until after the war. By 1950 the woods were playing out here and most of the trees had been cut with crosscut saws.
If there is an upside to the wholesale cutting of the forests it is better habitat for most animals including game birds as most do not live in mature forest but along edges.
Just a bit of history from my point of view.
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