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Musclepower and brawn with sharp ax and huge crosscut saws called “misery whips” conquered the giants of the Big Woods.
Often loggers did the impossuble, applying ingenuity and stubbornness in getting the timber down to splash.-- Washington State Historical Society.
Oxen dragged the great turns of logs to landings and sawmills over what became the skid roads.-- Oregon Historical Society.
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