. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. WJf. MACKAYd SgUARE TIMBKH KAKl'. by the middle of March, and when the .ce breaks up. it is floated down to the main river, and formed into cribs of logs (each 24 ft. in width, so that they will just pass down the slides) by 'siring pieces," "traverses," or withes, tare being taken to avoid injuring the timber by any attach- ment
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. WJf. MACKAYd SgUARE TIMBKH KAKl'. by the middle of March, and when the .ce breaks up. it is floated down to the main river, and formed into cribs of logs (each 24 ft. in width, so that they will just pass down the slides) by 'siring pieces," "traverses," or withes, tare being taken to avoid injuring the timber by any attach- ment. Seventy, a hundred of these cribs form a raft We give an illustration of the timber slide a with a ciib passing through ; and, also, at Ihe Vcginiiing of the Ottawa .Section, an illustration of the point on the river where the cribs are collected and " rebandcd " into the raft again, which operation has to be performed manyj^timcs between the forest and A CRIB CF TIMBBK PA85IXO THROl'GH THE Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London : Timber Trades Journal
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