Then with a hastening rush the top whistles thru the air, and tears thru the branches of other trees, and the trunk with a tremendous crash strikes the ground.

Even hardened loggers can hardly keep from shouting, so impressive is the sight of a falling giant tree.
[Illustration: Fig.5.Felling Red Spruce with a Saw.

Adirondack Mountains, New York.] [Illustration: Fig.6.Sawing Logs into Lengths.] All this seems simple enough in outline, but the actual execution requires considerable skill.

Trees seldom stand quite vertical, there is danger of lodging in some other tree in thick woods, and it is therefore necessary to throw trees quite exactly.

Some men become so expert at this that they can plant a stake and drive it into the ground by the falling trunk as truly as if they hit it with a maul.