182 LOGGING 
Haulers in the Adirondack mountains have carried fifteen cords 
of spruce pulp wood over roads having 10 and 11 per cent grades. 
Distance records of 84 miles in twenty-four hours have been 
reported. The heaviest loads have been hauled in the Lake 
States on iced roads. A single steam log hauler in Wisconsin 
has hauled fourteen sled loads of hardwood in one train, each 
sled bearing from 6000 to 7000 board feet, making three or four 
trips daily on a round-trip of 12 miles. In Minnesota, trains of 
nine sleds, each bearing 12,000 board feet of white and Norway 
pine, have been transported by one hauler. A steam hauler in 
Ontario made three turns daily on a road between 7 and 8 miles 
long hauling from nine to twelve sleds per trip, an average of 
thirty loads. Each sled carried eighty logs, or a total daily haul 
of 2400 logs. The company estimated that the hauler did the 
work of twenty teams. ^ 
A record- of one machine for a season's haul in Stetson Town, 
Franklin County, Maine, from January 11 to March 6, 1907, 
running day and night shifts, is shown in the following: 
Length of haul 7.5 miles 
Total miles traveled 2850 
Actual speed 4 to 6 miles per hour 
Sleds hauled 551 
Largest number of sleds in 1 turn 5 
Total sleds used daily 21 
Fuel used 350 cords of 2-foot hardwood 
Elapsed time 65 days 
Rimning time 53 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes 
Lost time 6 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes 
Total log scale 3,403,332 feet log scale 
Scale per sled 6225 feet log scale . 
Scale per turn 18,052 feet log scale 
Largest train . . . : 37,710 feet log scale 
Sixty-two horses would have been required to haul the same 
amount of timber. 
^ See Logging by Steam in Ontario Forests. Canada Lumberman, Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada, September, 1911, p. 77. 
2 From the Mechanical Traction of Sleds, by Asa S. Williams. Forestry 
Quarterly, Vol. VI, 1908, p. 361. 
