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Felling a mast tree
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Maine
Date: 1979s
Creator: Manning, Samuel F.
ID Number: Manning Masts p.10
Keywords: Ancestors, White Pine
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Description:
Felling a white pine tree. Smaller trees have been cut and their boughs and trunks laid for a soft landing for the mast tree.
Its hard to imaging trees this size today, and cutting them down without chain saws. It took sharp axes and strong men.
From the book, New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow, by Samuel F. Manning, 1979. Illustrations courtesy of the author and illustrator.
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