Log-cutting area

Usage examples of sawpit.

Nowhere was that more evident than climbing the final leg of the San Miguel River Canyon from Sawpit up into Telluride.

The Reverend Rogers had gone to change into his vestments, ready to read the burial service, but when he reached the sawpit, the bodies had already been interred.

Even the dogs had been taken in and the only sound--other than the buzz of discussion going on inside the lodge--was the harsh sawpit song of a young cicada in lust.

He glanced around quickly, registering a sawpit and stacks of tree trunks and cut planks.

Small figures were busy around a stack of fresh-felled trees, drifts of dust rising from a sawpit and one solitary man astride a massive log stripping bark and branches with an axe.

Mountain Men flung trestles, tools and wood into the sawpit, brands and a barrel of fir-spirit following to burn a smoldering scar deep into the grass.

There were fourteen of us in all, and we went on working--cutting down timber, and dragging it to the sawpits, the usual work there--giving no cause for suspicion, till dusk, when we managed so that we proceeded homeward in a straggling line.

There is pigs and goats and a host of chickens, a proper village, like, with meat drying and a smoke house for fish, and three sawpits dug with platforms in working order, and in two of them a Huon log half sawn.