1 14 CLEARING THIS CODPB OP PRODUCB. 



holes being scooped in each side of the log to receive the end of the 

 hooks h, h. The log is firmly held by the hooks in proportion to the 

 tension of the draught. Simple levers have nearly always to be used 

 to control the moving log or to lift the forward end off obstacles. 



Pieces weighing up to 800 and even 1,000 pounds may be car- 

 ried out on men's shoulders, if the lead is short. 



Carts and barrows should be used only when the lead is long ; 

 otherwise the labour and time spent in loading and unloading cease 

 to make this mode of transport an economical one. Large logs 

 are always much more cheaply dragged, especially if they are sus- 

 pended, more or less by the middle, from the axle of a pair of high 

 wheels. The hind end should slightly over-balance, but not to such 

 an extent as to prevent one or two men from holding it off the 

 ground, if necessary. If the axle-tree consists of wood, the ends 

 may be made like a capstan head, to enable the log to be easily 

 raised off the ground. The use of wheeled conveyance is of course 

 limited to level even ground. 



Only large logs may be taken out by sliding. On more or less 

 level ground sliding is similar to dragging, except that the logs 

 must be moved entirely on rollers. A simple device is to use two or 

 three strong portable frames carrying well-turned rollers. As the 

 log is slid off the hindmost frame, this latter is carried forward and 

 placed in front of the advancing log. On slopes the logs may be 

 pushed forward with levers. If the depot to which the logs have 

 at once to be taken is some distance off, and the quantity of timber 

 to be moved is large and concentrated within a limited area, a 

 special sliding road may be made. 



In this last case, if the pieces to be moved are small, a sledge 

 road may be made instead of a slide, and a rough continuation of 

 the road may be readily laid down (and as readily taken up) along 

 successive lines of the coupe as the area is progressively cleared. 



On very steep gradients the produce may be allowed to slide 

 down of its own weight. No difficulty presents itself when the pro- 

 duce is to be collected at the bottom of the slope, except that the 

 pieces may break and lose in value as timber. If the produce has 

 to be arrested above the bottom of the valley, special works must be 

 built up for the purpose. A channel or shoot, constructed of wood, 

 may be used for the rapid transport of billets, for which class of 

 produce this mode of moving is peculiarly well adapted. 



Section VIII. — Seasoning and stacking in the foeest. 

 Until the produce removed from the coupe is finally disposed of. 



