A TREE A MINUTE.
; I timed the firs to-day as they crashed to earth ; the machine sliced through, on the average, a fir a minute, and three minutes sufficed for the stoutest giants tackled. Three skilled foresters working at full pressure with axe and hand saw reckon 10 trees as a good clay's labour; this machine, run by a couple of men, will account for 45 or ■50. .And when it has felled the tree, it can "be turned on its side and converted to cross-cutting with» equal celeritj'.
It was invented by. that famous engineer tho late Mr Allen Eansomo. "''The idea caino. to my father one morning during .sermon time in churc- ."
said Mr Geoffrey Ransome as we stood together in tho forest watching its swift work this afternoon. "And he was so excited over it that he began to work on the drawings there and then on the fly-loaf of his Prayer-book.— "Daily Mail" correspondent.
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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14231, 2 November 1916, Page 2
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158A TREE A MINUTE. Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14231, 2 November 1916, Page 2
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