log drive
River lumber transport
A log drive is the historical practice of floating cut timber downstream to sawmills, once the primary method of transporting logs from remote forests before railroads and trucks.
Workers called log drivers or river pigs guided the floating logs, breaking up jams with pike poles and peaveys.
The spring log drive brought thousands of logs down the river.
The practice was common in North America and Scandinavia through the early twentieth century and has largely disappeared.
Inland waterway worker
- raftsmanOne who navigates rafts
- sawyerWood-cutting tradesperson
- fellerOne who cuts timber
- scalerOne who climbs
swamper · teamster · foreman · drowning · logrolling · balance · agility · stamina
Those working waterways
- sawmill townSettlement centered on cutting lumber
- peaveySpiked lever for logs
- cant hookLog-rolling lever tool
- shantyRamshackle dwelling
Log for cutting lumber
- pulpwoodTimber for paper manufacture
- softwoodConiferous tree lumber
- pineCone-bearing evergreen
- spruceNeat; also a conifer
fir · cedar · hemlock · hardwood · board feet · cord · boom · raft
Directed flow of charge
- rapidsTurbulent river section
- channelPassage for transmission
- confluenceMeeting point of streams
- tributaryStream entering larger river
eddy · streamflow · freshet · meltwater · snowmelt · spring runoff · watershed · floodplain
riverman
Inland waterway worker
scaler · swamper · teamster · foreman · drowning · logrolling · balance · agility · stamina
rivermen
Those working waterways
- sawmill townSettlement centered on cutting lumber
- peaveySpiked lever for logs
- cant hookLog-rolling lever tool
sawlog
Log for cutting lumber
spruce · fir · cedar · hemlock · hardwood · board feet · cord · boom · raft · crib
current
Directed flow of charge
- rapidsTurbulent river section
- channelPassage for transmission
- confluenceMeeting point of streams
tributary · eddy · streamflow · freshet · meltwater · snowmelt · spring runoff · watershed · floodplain · meander
- lumber industrysawmill, logs, timber harvesting, lumber yards, loggers
- logging townssawmill, lumber mill, loggers, timber yard, lumber
log drivelogging truck
Vehicle transporting felled trees
rail transport · trucking · log truck · skidding · road transport
drive, log, driven, driver, logging, logger, logged, drivable