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HORSE PACKING 



Fig. 2 



Fig. 2. Being now on the off side the packer picks up the 

 off pack and lifts it into the off bight, and brings the 

 load as high toward the saw buck as possible. He 

 takes up the slack of the bight so that the rope 

 holds the pack in position as tightly as possible. 

 The packer now brings up the end of the rope 

 from under the off pack, taking one full turn 

 around the bight that holds the pack in position. 

 This turn is taken at the centre of the bight. 

 He now makes a bowline in the end of the off 

 sling rope in such a way, or place, that when 

 cinched it will come about in the centre of the 

 load between the packs. 



The position of the sling rope is now as shown in 

 Fig. 2. 



