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DuJ rham hoes Emergency 911 ti action Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 8,1991-9 Courses being offered at Durham S ave -A-He art The Region of Durham Iast ît is expected that the systemn diaiing 911 wflen your name, week held the officiai opening will be accepting upwards of address ad phone number wilI of the new emergency 911 1000 oeils a day. appear on the central computer phone number which on the In need of heip, police, f ire, screen and your request wiii be f irst day of operation handied ambulance it is but a matter of handied. over 400 cails. I wonder if I made a short list of bis end of tbe saw, tired, and had the following items, if any too beavy a band, bis partner would connections could be made from often remark - "If you want to ride tbemn. I speak of whip saws;, cross- this saw you better buy a ticket." cut saws; cant hooks; logging Since manty of these trees were chains witb grab books; buffalo hardwood giants, a real skill was coats; sparts of oxen; shanty bouses; required to fell the tree exactly sulphur and molasses; and the where you wanted it to go. My last inevitable pine gum. Front these experience wîtb tbe skills of one of and other items as I go along i these men was tbe late Jack migbt be able to portray for you the Carscadden. His expertise in tbe wood industry during the winter bush, both witb saw; and skidding montbs that followed the more out logs was a treat to watch. The romnant ic area of tbe great pine fact that hie survived bis year in the masts. Much bas already been woods without accident is tribute written about the "masting period" enougb. wben the great virgin pines grew Before there were circular saws along the Oak Ridge Moraine, for the millwrights or sawyers, What is not so well known is the there were whip saws. The whip dutting of these woods that saw worked up and down vertically. followed the period from about They were powered by a small 1860 up until the 1930s. This water wbeel. Such a wbîp saw and wood was taken fromn wood lots, its accompanying pond existed at somnetimies under contract, but more the back of the Weyricb property often the farmner himiself. The just below the Oshawa Ski MIL. It varieties dut were legend, second was the mill of Samuel Glass. growtb white and red pine, There was one great disadvantage hemlock, spruce, maple, beech, asb to these early saws. As the cut and oak. These lots have came close to the end of the log, the diminished today so mhat often, if blade would spring out and the end any remain tbey are a small grove of each board would be mucb of shade trees. It bas always thicker than the rest of the board. I troubled men at the Orono Tree have somne eigbteen inch pine Nursery at hand, more local speries boards in my shed, aîl bearing have flot been replanted., testimony to the unevenness of the Well, back to the woods! There Glass wbip saw. To roll logs up to was a ready market for cord wood the saw, a devioe called a cant hook to tire the insatiable appetites of the was used to hold the log in place Grand Trunk locomotives along the and roll it forward. The large iron lake shore. There was a large depot logging chains were secured around or yard of bard wood as sembled at the logs as they were bauled to the Newcastle. This provided a good mill or were used to tigbten one end deal of work for the winter bush of the log as it skidded by one horse workers a little farmher north. Thbis or a spant of oxen over the snow. market dried up when coal was Oxen were particularly useful in the brougbt from Pennsylvania across art of skidding. They did not the Lakes. Coal was plentiful and require a set of reins to guide mhem. made a more reliable head of steam A span of oxen were slow but of for the engines, great strength. The rigbit hand ox The early homes of the pioneers was always called "Buck" and the were nonre to spadlous or warm 50o left band ox was 'Nigh'. A prod there was a real neced for larger, from the drivers rod was aîl that -,ubstantially and often somewbat motîvated tbemn and gave tbem ,..retentious homes to be buîlt. In direction. Incidentally a drivers other words the building trade was rod was exactly that, - a "rod, booming and lumber, trim, window measuring five and a haif yards or asbes and fine floorîng was in sixteen and a haîf feet from the demand. Much of tbis came from dnivers hand to the tip of the oxens oui local woods and many of their nose. fine old homes still stand today. Where do the buffalo coats fit e men wbo felled the trees used in? They were indeed made from ~tfeir cross-dut saws working in te bides of buffalo from the early Pars.-Ifone o7-th en rpeling dy e.tb ýýjs seemed to wear out, were very warm and could be used for the wearer as he wound bis weary way- back to his humble shelter at the end of the days work. Tbese were often used as lap robes for cutters in winter as well. 1 wonder if any old resident stili bas a buffalo robe in theattic. Now 1am down to the suiphur and molasses, whicb was the worst part of wintering in the bush. The shanties were small, had a very hot metal stove for evening beat; and certainly no0 plumbing; especially bath tubs. The lumber men waited for spring and tbe running freshets to do bis laundry and bave, bis spring batb. Conditions as described, needed the I.spring tonic" of suiphur and molasses to dlean the blood from within and the suiphur was also a disinfectant on the skin if any small vermîn had infested the bedding. A lumber man's clothing would actually emit a blue flame if brougbt too close to the stove. I almost forgot the raw pine gum. Cuts and abrasions were common for the rougbi work in tbe bush. The treatmenit to keep the wound dlean was to give it an ample coverrng of the raw pine gum. It served as an excellent antiseptic', albeit it was a bit sticky and messy. I arn afraid my portrayal of earlier days in the bush are none too romantie. The comradarie of the men was their entertainment and there are good stories there; those I cannot tell. 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