Log driving
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Log driving is a means of moving logs from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe an
Log drivers at Klarälven in Sweden.
A sawmill with floating logs in Kotka, Finland.
Log driver working for the Brown Company in New Hampshire.
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.
Log boom
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A log boom is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests. The term is also used as a place where logs were collected into booms, as at t
Log boom moving south on the St. Croix River in Stillwater, Minnesota, 1895.
Log boom on St. Croix River in Maine, aerial photo taken in 1973
Timber marks on a log building in Sweden where they are called flottningsmärke