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.
Timber rafting
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Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably,
Log driving
…reaches of a river, with the logs floated down to them by log drivers. In the broader, slower stretches of a river, the logs might be bound together into timber rafts. In the smaller, wilder stretches of a river where rafts couldn't get through, masses of individual logs were driven down the river like huge herds of…
Rafting to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada (August 2006).
Raftsmen in Northern Finland in the 1930s
Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973).
Timber raft by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1868.