TOOLS FOK MOVING LOOS. 



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The screw-jack is well known to every one who has heen at a 

 railway station. Its employment, as well as that of the thrust- 

 pole and stool-wrench, is sufficiently evident from the illustrations. 



AnTioLE 7. — Tools fob moving logs fob convebsioh. 



The tools with which we are concerned here are only such as 

 serve to move logs over short distances to points in the forest, 

 and often even in the coupe itself, where they can be easily con- 

 verted. 



Rough tools always ready to hand are small round billets or 

 poles on which the logs are rolled and sufficiently strong, short 

 poles used as levers, with which they are rolled along. 



A wonderfully convenient and effective tool for rolling logs 

 along is what we may term the hook-lever (Fig. 47), an implement 



Fig. 47. 



The Uook-Lever. {After Gayer'), 



of German origin, which consists of a hook, similar to that of the 

 stool- wrench, sliding on a stout pole that is shod with a two- 

 pronged fork. 



