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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:49:10 -0000, "simon pryce" <simonpryce@xxxxx.net>
wrote:

I think you're getting mixed up with the practise of topping spar trees,
which were used as high anchors for skyline or high lead extraction.  If you
can get hold of any of the books about logging in the old west [Time Life
Books did quite a good one] they have quite lot of detail and usually some
impressive sepia photos.

No, I was aware of this also, those old pictures of steam high lead
tackle make my little set up look like a toy. I never fancied swinging
an axe of those boards either.

I was told the tale about the tops falling on the feller by my first
foreman who had worked in America, I grant he may have been playing on
my naivety, which has carried forward to this day.

AJH

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