Image ID:  FHS5416
Image Date:  August 1943
Image Title:  Felling a Noble fir tree.
Image Caption:  Caption 1: Felling a Noble fir tree with an electric tree felling machine at St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company's Camp #2. This tree was 6 1/2' on the butt and the felling operation took 12 minutes. Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.

Caption 2: Modern power saws are replacing the "misery whip," -- the long, fellers saw -- one of the traditional tools of the woods workmen. Here an electrical saw powered by a portable generator slices through the butt of a giant Noble fir in a western forest. Modern concepts of logging have extended farther than equipment and today forest industries are applying approved management methods to their forests to produce perpetual crops of trees for our use.
Photographer:  McCullough, R.N.
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.