Note on the extraction of firewood.

Abstract

Foresters, fuel merchants and others faced with the task of bringing firewood to a point accessible to wheeled transport often meet with rough ground where every way out is beset with many obstacles and the going is extremely tough. They know that extraction, even of firewood, is an expensive job and while "crawler" tractors, cableways, etc. form the dream-stuff of many who interest themselves in this particular phase of forestry, all of them would welcome any practical cost-cutting ideas capable of being put into immediate effect...