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Title: Driving Logs
Post by: JimH on December 27, 2021, 01:27:37 pm

I own a building that was part of an old sawmill built on the Mississippi in Minneapolis in 1892, so I have an interest in the history of logging and sawmills.  Over the weekend I was looking for pictures and found this one.

It's a raft made up of "strings" of logs.  The bow was tapered to try to minimize damage when the raft struck the bank.

If you look closely, not only is there a woman in an apron, and a dog standing on his back legs, but there is a baby!

These rafts were sometimes made up of "cribs" of sawn lumber.  From Minneapolis, lumber was rafted as far as St. Louis.

This photo is from Oregon.

Title: Re: Driving Logs
Post by: Scobie on January 01, 2022, 05:18:43 pm

Great image, google tells me that its Rinearson Slough in Columbia County.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/13/the-mighty-log-rafts-of-the-old-new-world-tough-work-tough-men/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/media-collections/timber-industry-3/?grid=1

Title: Re: Driving Logs
Post by: JimH on January 01, 2022, 06:55:51 pm

Quote from: Scobie on January 01, 2022, 05:18:43 pm

Great image, google tells me that its Rinearson Slough in Columbia County.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/13/the-mighty-log-rafts-of-the-old-new-world-tough-work-tough-men/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/media-collections/timber-industry-3/?grid=1

Thanks!  That's news to me.