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Every page of this book is endowed with the confident, unfakable authority of real experience. -- Castle Freeman
Cook takes the reader over every step in the wood-harvesting process—tree felling, limbing, bucking, wood handling, splitting, cutting to size, storing, and burning. Cook packs his book with vivid, entertaining anecdotes from a lifetime of experience. -- Bud Leavitt, Bangor (ME) Daily News
Praise of Cook’s treatment of saws cannot be complete without mention of the superb line drawings of S. Lawrence Whipple. The illustrations are large, clear, and with enough graphic perspective to enable the reader to appreciate what is involved when he drops off the saw `to be sharpened.’ Altogether, there are more than fifty of these beautifully drawn, incisive visual aids. -- Roy C. Gunter Jr., Southbridge (MA) News
A remarkable piece of work…the illustrations are similar to Eric Sloane’s, and like Sloane’s they present pictures in clearest detail to back up the author’s story. -- Dirk van Loon, Rural Delivery, Liverpool, N.S., Canada

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    A Paperback / softback by Dudley Cook

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      Publisher: Stackpole Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780811739054, 978-0811739054
      ISBN10: 0811739058

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Every page of this book is endowed with the confident, unfakable authority of real experience. -- Castle Freeman
      Cook takes the reader over every step in the wood-harvesting process—tree felling, limbing, bucking, wood handling, splitting, cutting to size, storing, and burning. Cook packs his book with vivid, entertaining anecdotes from a lifetime of experience. -- Bud Leavitt, Bangor (ME) Daily News
      Praise of Cook’s treatment of saws cannot be complete without mention of the superb line drawings of S. Lawrence Whipple. The illustrations are large, clear, and with enough graphic perspective to enable the reader to appreciate what is involved when he drops off the saw `to be sharpened.’ Altogether, there are more than fifty of these beautifully drawn, incisive visual aids. -- Roy C. Gunter Jr., Southbridge (MA) News
      A remarkable piece of work…the illustrations are similar to Eric Sloane’s, and like Sloane’s they present pictures in clearest detail to back up the author’s story. -- Dirk van Loon, Rural Delivery, Liverpool, N.S., Canada

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