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Show 'ifrmFftJTfoc: OF QifY u iUKh or .-, , ' iPWA fa A A POM) II ME I ( n , . Ogden Men Have a Blotor-Propelled Saw For Cutting Standing Timber Tests Made Are Successful and Most , Encouraging Will Save the Labor of Many Men in the Big Timber Camps of the Pacific Coast $'$r ZT'T3f&fy'' "3 '&$t&tfy A mechanical device has been re-contly re-contly Invented and patonted by two Ogden men, Richard Jessop and" Paul C. Burdick, which they believe will revolutionize the method of felling timber and to a largo extent do away with the old method of sawing down trees by hand The machine is run on a half circle track, as Is shown in the photograph photo-graph and olther gasoline or electric power Is UBod in running tho englno. The circle saw, which will be used, is directly connected to the engine on a phot arrangemont which will allow al-low its being adjusted to any angle. The track on which the apparatus is operated is operated Is also adjustable adjust-able and can be olther raised or lowered low-ered as occasion requires. When the tree la reached and tho engine placed In poslton for operation, opera-tion, a slanting upper cut Is made on tho side on which It is deslrod to fell the tree. Making this cut upward up-ward instead of downward, the Inventors In-ventors claim, will prove a great advantage, ad-vantage, being an exact reversal of the methods now In use whoro a level cut which Is chopped out, leaves a flat surface on the stump against which the tree reacts In falling After the under cut Is made, the I engine Is set to work sawing around the trunk of tho tree in a clrclo and in this way only a small core In tho center is lefL The inventors say that the experiments experi-ments made demonstrate beyond doubt that tho mechanical method works well and, though It Is not claimed that this method could bo omployed In sparsely timbered areas or where the timber Is small, to any advantage, it Is claimed that on the coast In the forests where the trees run from flvo to eight feoL and even larger In diameter, It will prove a great saving. Logging mon have always hald that no mechanical method could over bo be devised for felling trees which would prove successful, but the Inventors In-ventors are sanguine In their predictions pre-dictions that tho old opinions will soon bo proved orroneous. The model now being used for demonstration dem-onstration purposes weighs about six hundred pounds, but In oider to handle the larger timber tho weight will have to he doubled and may go as high as sixteen hundred jounds The inventors believe that this machine ma-chine can be readily handled In the timber on account of Its compactness compact-ness and, excepting In extremely rough, country, there will be no troublo In operation. In addition to other advantages, il Is claimed that the machine will cut about twenty of the largest troes per eight-hour day and In doing so will save the labor of from twenty to thirty thir-ty men. It Is estlmatod that the machine ma-chine will tako only two men to op-crate, op-crate, 'and at the most not more than threo, while irom eight to ten aro now employed in an ordinary cutting crew. Should the venture prove successful and become generally adopted In tho coast logging districts, a manufacturing manufactur-ing plant will be established In Ogden, Og-den, but thp Inventors are of tho opinion that It will bo necessary to take the device into the woods and practically demonstrate Its worth In order to overcome tho prejudice In tho minds of lodging mon against all .such mechanical Innovations. as Wilson, but told the officers that he could not be cortaln of IL He Bald that he had come to town from a grading camp betweon thlB city and Salt Lake City, but could not tell for whom ho worked and was not sure what day he left the camp. He declared de-clared that when he left tho camp he had with him a dog and that three mon had followed him with the Intention In-tention of killing him. They first mado an assault on the "dawg" and kJckcd the animal most viciously The "dawg" followed after him and the men after tho animal, continually abusing It. While tho man shows many evidences evi-dences of being Insane somo of the officers of-ficers wore Inclined to believe that ho had been drinking for several days nnd had heard tho "dawg song" sung so often that It had affected his mind, causing an hallucination which will wear off uftor he has spent a few days In the city prison. He Is thought to bo an employe of tho Oregon Short Line double track contractors. |