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HORSE PACKING 



NO. 2 SAW BUCK SLINC 



This is another method of slinging on a saw buck 

 saddle and is adapted, as the diagrams show, to such 

 loads as are longer and more awkward. 



The mule being equipped v>ith the san> tuc^ saddle to sling ihe 

 load. 



Fig. /. The Packer makes a clove hitch at the centre 

 of the sling rope and slips it over the forward 

 forks of the saw buck allowing the one end to drop 



naturally down on the near side and the other he 

 throws across the mule's neck to the far side. 

 The position of the sling rope is now as shown in 

 Fig. I. 



