Hi Terri, It's been a long time since I watched the training films, but I think that the usual process of cutting down an evergreen is to remove all the limbs as you climb up using a belt around your waist and around the tree. You've seen the pictures of the lumberjack at the top of the tree, leaning back in the belt. Then you cut sections off the top of the trunk as you come down. When those large, heavy sections fall, the trunk whips back and forth, and the lumberjack rides it out - like a bucking horse. It was a status job because of the skill required to stay alive. I don't think I'm making this up! <Grin> Diane in Shoreline (state of wa) dhettrick@earthlink.net > Terri wrote: > > > I'd be interested to hear also. I'll have to check my notes but this is > > where an ancestor of mine was stationed? lived? He was "buckin' trees" ( I > > think this is the way it is said) for the railroad. This would have been > > 1900-1910 or so. Terri, Redmond, WA