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How a River Log Drive Works

submitted by pumkinandstorm

1 decade 11 months 4 weeks ago

(youtube) River drives were a standard way of moving large amounts of cut timber to sawmills during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, prior to the expansion and adoption of railroads and trucks for log transport. This clip is an excerpt from "Timber on the Move: A History of Log Moving Technology," a documentary film from the Forest History Society

8 Comments

Damn loggers, you crazy!
It looked like they lost 1/2 the logs in the streams, and just destroyed the stream beds and fish. How was this ever a good idea?
Looked awesome though.

While I don't disagree with the critique, "doing what you can with what you got" comes to mind.

In the absence of any other mass moving method, this seems logical if not environmentally aware in the slightest.

Damn loggers, you crazy!
It looked like they lost 1/2 the logs in the streams, and just destroyed the stream beds and fish. How was this ever a good idea?
Looked awesome though.

Far more impressive is in October when the logs return up the river to where they were originally felled.

Porksandwich says...

And now people make their living recovering all the stuff that sunk to the bottom....since they cleared out a lot of old and now expensive wood that doesn't rot due to temperature of the water or being preserved in the mud and what not.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Log-Drivers-Waltz-2

Log Driver's Waltz has been added as a related post - related requested by Fusionaut.

*vintage *howto

Adding video to channels (Howto, Vintage) - requested by maatc.

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