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Identifier: loggingprincip00brya (find matches)
Title: Logging; the principles and general methods of operation in the United States
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bryant, Ralph Clement, b. 1877
Subjects: Lumbering
Publisher: New York : J. Wiley & Sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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increase the number of logs that can be handled at one time. When skidding with two animals, either horses or mules, andhandhng timber that averages from six to nine logs per thousandfeet, log scale, a days work, ten hours, ranges between 10,000and 15,000 feet for distances up to 500 feet. A daily average of10,000 feet during a month is considered good. For 750 feetthe average ranges between 8000 and 12,000 feet, log scale andfor 1000 feet, from 3000 to 4500 feet, log scale. A two-yoketeam of oxen will average approximately the same number offeet per day as a good pair of mules or horses. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON CHAPTER XI Margolin, Louis: The Hand Loggers of British Columbia. Forestry Quar-terly, Vol. IX , No. 4, pp. 562-567. CHAPTER XII SLEDS AND SLED-HAULING THE GO-DEVIL Snaking is frequently supplemented by the use of sleds. A sled known as a go-devil, travois or crotch is employed inthe eastern part of the United States during the summer andearly fall and sometimes in the winter.

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Fig. $^. — A Go-devil loaded with Hardwood Logs. Michigan. The go-devil is a product of the camp blacksmith shop. It isa rough sled having two unshod hardwood runners, which arepreferably of yellow birch, selected from timbers having a naturalcrook. The usual t}^e of runner is from 6 to 7I feet long, 6 155 156 LOGGING inches wide, and from 3 to 5 inches thick. A 6-inch by 6-inch by4-foot or 5-foot bunk is fastened to each runner by a bolt. Thebunk is placed from 2 to 2^ feet from the rear end of the runners.A ring is attached to the center of this bunk and the logs arebound on the latter by a chain passing around the logs and bunkand through the ring. The curved, forward ends of the runnersare connected by a roller which has a short chain at each endthat passes through a hole in the forward end of the runner andis fastened several inches back on it. Since the go-devil hasno tongue it can be turned around in a small space. The draftrigging consists of chains fastened to either side o

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