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Updated: May 24, 2025
The next operation is to cut down all the small trees and brush this is called under-brushing. The rule is to cut everything close to the ground from the diameter of six inches downwards. There are two modes of piling, either in heaps or in wind-rows.
A good axe-man should be able, with fair chopping, to cut an acre in eight days after the under-brushing is done. The regular price of chopping is five dollars per acre, with board, or six without.
They were employed in clearing the ground; that is, chopping down trees, under-brushing, cutting the underwood, building log huts, fencing, ploughing, and digging, road making not as roads are made in England, though, but with logs and planks and building carts and wagons, and bridges too; indeed, there were few things they did not turn their hands to.
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