On these the logs, when cut later, are to be piled.

Back from the skidways, into the woods the swampers cut rough, narrow roads called _dray roads_ or travoy roads,--mere trails sufficiently cleared of brush to allow a team of horses to pull a log thru.
[Illustration: Fig.4.Tools used in Logging.] All these are operations preliminary to the felling of trees.

The tools commonly used in logging are shown in Fig.4.When everything is ready for felling, the "fitter" goes ahead _marking_ each tree to be felled and the direction in which it is to fall by cutting a notch on that side.

Then come the sawyers in pairs, Fig.5.First they chop a deep gash on the side of the tree toward which it is to fall, and then from the opposite side begin cutting with a long, Tuttle-tooth, crosscut-saw.

The saw is a long, flexible ribbon of steel, with handles so affixed to each end that they can be removed easily.