CHAPTER VI. 



TIMBER TRANSPORT. 



A SIMPLE but important fact to be borne in mind 

 is, that logs move much, more freely without their 

 bark than with it, and that, being barked, they 

 will travel much more freely on each other than 

 on the ground. Also, that long logs, once set in 

 motion (endways), will slide down a lower incline 

 than short logs. Large timbers will also slide at 

 a lower incline than poles. 



To move timber on level ground. Timber is most 

 economically transported in water, but forests on 

 the Plains are frequently some miles from the 

 nearest river, and often in remote localities, where 

 gharries fit to carry a large log are not procurable, 

 and the roads perhaps muddy or through heavy 

 sand. To move a clearing of say 5000 logs from 

 the forest to the river, and over some miles of bad 

 road, would be a work of immense expense if 

 each log were rolled down singly, but the labour 

 is infinitely lightened if every log is converted 

 into a temporary rail for the others to travel on. 



