FLOATING AND RAFTING 



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Rafting Works. — These may be located below sorting gaps, 

 at the head of still water on non-navigable streams or at the 

 terminus of a logging railroad, or other form of transport along 

 the shore of a lake or at tidewater. The form of the rafting 

 works is governed by the character of the stream or body of 

 water and by the form of raft constructed. On rivers where 

 rafts are limited in width because of the size of the channel, 

 rafts are made long and narrow and the rafting works, if logs of 

 numerous owners are handled, may consist of many pockets 



Fig. III. — A Patent Sorting Device used in the Appalachian Region. 



whose boundaries are marked by bracket booms with plank 

 runways which are held in position by piling. 



On the Great Lakes, where logs are towed loose in booms, 

 storage areas off-shore are provided in which logs are held until 

 a sufficient number have accumulated. These areas are bounded 

 by heavy sheer booms held in place by piling. The rafts are 

 made up by surrounding a group of logs with heavy towing 

 booms and towing them out of the storage areas. 



Along some of the tidewaters of the Atlantic seaboard logs 

 are made into bundles and towed to the mills. The rafting 

 works here consist of an unloading wharf which projects into 



