# LUMBERING IN THE NORTH WOODS

LUMBERING IN THE NORTH WOODS Produced: 1922 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “The forest supplies the raw material for many industries. Houses, furniture, boxes, fuel, railroad ties, telephone poles, and paper are only a few uses of wood.” “The United States uses more wood per capita than any other country. We are the richest in useful forests.” “Our different forests are shown on the map. We will see how trees are changed to lumber in the forests of the Great Lakes region.” Map of the United States showing southern forest, hardwood forest, northern forest, Rocky Mountain forest, and Pacific forest. “Summer time in a northern forest of pine and hardwoods.” View of forested hills - two men in forest of large trees. “Selecting the site for the lumber camp.” Men walking along road in forest. “The log huts are built and when the snow falls the work begins.” Log cabins, snow-covered ground. “In the northern forest lumbering is done in the winter. In felling the trees, one side is notched and the saw started on the opposite side. The notch directs the fall of the tree and prevents the splintering of the timber.” Two workers cutting notch in large tree trunk with axes, using two man saw to cut tree - tree falling. “As soon as the tree falls the brush and large branches are removed.” Two workers trimming tree, piling branches. “The tree is cut into logs by hand sawing.” Workers using two men saw to cut the tree into…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1922
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-448)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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