SLEDS AND SLED-HAULING 
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Snaking methods and go-devils are replaced in such cases by 
yarding sleds or drays in the Northeast and by a "jumbo dray" 
or a "bob" in the Lake States and the Adirondack mountains. 
The yarding sled is made by the camp blacksmith and has 
a pair of yellow birch or maple runners, 7 feet long, 3 inches 
wide shod with f-inch steel shoes. The forward ends are 
curved upward. The runners are held togcth(>r by a bunk 8 
Fig. 1)9. — A Yarding Sled ii.sed in the Northeast. 
inches square and 4 or 5 feet long, placed about 3 feet from the 
rear end of the sled. In order to facilitate handling the sled the 
bunk is made in two parts; namely, a lower stationary bar 
fastened securely to the runners by pins, called "starts," and 
braced by heavy iron straps or "raves," and an upper bar which 
is temporarily removed when the sled is turned around in the 
woods. The upper bunk has grooves cut on the ends or on the 
sides, and these grooves fit around the starts, which are mortised 
in the lower bunk and fastened to the runners. 
Several logs with the forward ends supported on the bunk and 
the rear ends dragging on the ground can be hauled on a yarding 
sled. 
Two |-inch chains 18 or 20 feet long are used to fasten the logs 
