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Pit sawing (pitsaw)		A method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
Additional or regional comments : The man on top was called the "Top Man." He lifted the saw and guided the saw. The man on the bottom was the "Pit Man," who pulled the saw down, supplying most of the energy this it took to saw the wood. He often got sawdust in his eyes, and always in his hair and down the back of his neck. The saw cut only on the down stroke. It is said that the term "That's the pits" may have come from the discomforts of being a pitman.

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