A SLEDDING LOG HAULER 



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CORRESPONDENT, im- 

 pressed with the work of a steam 

 log hauler at the Bo^'d & Harvey 

 logging camp at Dead River 

 Forks in the northern part of Maine, 

 sends the following sketchy account of 

 the work it does when conditions are 

 right, which means snow from 6 inches 

 to 3 feet deep. 



The hauler pulls eight sled-loads of 

 logs, each load including 10,000 feet 

 of spruce logs, 80,000 feet in all. 



The sleds weigh a half -ton each. The 

 load on each sled weighs 5 tons. That's 

 five and one-half tons to a sled, or a 

 total of 45 tons that the hauler drags 

 along. 



This log-hauler at the Boyd & Harvey 

 logging camp will travel through 3 

 feet of snow. It has to have snow, in 

 fact, in order to do business, for its 

 front wheels are not wheels at all, but 

 big skids or runners. 



The back wheels are as big as road 

 roller wheels and are "slagged," with 

 hig steel shoes. 



If the log-hauler is on a down grade 

 they check it from running away by 

 spreading hay in front of the skids. 

 It wouldn't do to have the hauler take 

 the bit in its teeth, so to speak, and 

 gallop off with 80,000 feet of spruce. 

 Something might "bust." 



It takes four men to run this log- 

 hauler, steersman, engineer, fireman and 

 conductor. When the tall spruce trees, 

 which furnish pulp for making news 

 paper, are felled on the broad forest 

 slopes, they are drawn by horses to the 

 hauler, where they are loaded on sleds. 

 After eight sleds have been loaded in 

 line the hauler buckles on, gives a 

 couple of puffs and away goes the whole 

 outfit over to Dead River 5 miles from 

 the Boyd & Harvey camp. 



Photo by International News Service 



The Sleddixg Log H.\uler 

 in action .a.t the limber c.a.mp at dead river forks, maine. the machine h.\uls from four to eight sleds 

 at a speed of six to ten miles an hour— each sled weighs about five and one-half tons loaded 



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