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On the day the Capitol Christmas Tree was harvested, locals gathered to watch two sawyers cut the trunk with a vintage Forest Service cross-cut saw—an ode to the historic timber industry within the Monongahela.

Born in 1818, Mr Davies had humble beginnings as the son of a farmer and sawyer.

In her spare time, she volunteers to maintain a six-mile stretch of the nearby Appalachian Trail, one of only a few female sawyers on the AT.

It was 115 feet tall and 12 feet around, and Wednesday morning, a requiem was held before it was consigned to the sawyers.

“It makes a ringing sound when you get a groove going,” said Konigsberg, who had prior experience as a sawyer while working on U.S.