Log driving facts for kids
Log driving means moving logs after they are cut down to a sawmill for more refining. Logs were typically sent down a river or transported over land.
Images for kids
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Log drivers at Klarälven in Sweden.
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Log jam at Berlin, New Hampshire.
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Log driver working for the Brown Company in New Hampshire.
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River drivers in Germany with a crude pike pole the Germans call a rafters' hook (Flößerhaken, as in rafting logs), probably one or two pickaroons and a ring dog for rolling logs over.
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