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TRANSPORTATION ON LAND BY VEHICLES:— THE VEHICLES 



Ready to unload a bunch of hardwood logs, Cadillac, Mich. 



High wheelers and steam log loaders at work near Cadillac, Mich. 



High wheeler about to dump a bunch of logs at 



the loading station of the narrow gauge railroad, 



Cummer-Diggins Co., Cadillac, Mich. 



logs are made fast underneath the axle, 

 either by using the tongue as a lever or with 

 the help of a winch handled by crowbars, 

 or by the "slip-tongue," found notably in 

 the pineries. Here, a square tongue (which 

 carries the doubletree) some 22 feet long, 

 "slips" between the hounds when the mules 

 begin to pull. In doing so, the tongue turns 

 a winch by means of a lever and of a chain 



Large type two-v,iieeler used iii Michigan. 



Overpack wheels dumping load. 



