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Forest railway operations in Comandău, Romania (Photograph from 1996). A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.
Lumber, pulpwood, shingle bolts, and whole logs move at different speeds and were prone to double-up in a V-flume’s low grades and curves. Finally, box flumes could move an unprecedented amount of material, up to a maximum capacity of 300,000 board feet (710 m 3 ), or three times as great as the maximum for a V-flume.
The Control Panel can be accessed from a command prompt by typing control; optional parameters are available to open specific control panels. [2] On Windows 10, Control Panel is deprecated in favor of Settings app, which was originally introduced on Windows 8 as "PC settings" to provide a touchscreen-optimized settings area using its Metro ...
A Eucalyptus being felled using springboards, c. 1884–1917, Australia McGiffert Log Loader in East Texas, US, c. 1907 Lumber under snow in Montgomery, Colorado, 1880s Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport .
Log most often refers to: Trunk (botany), the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, called logs when cut Logging, cutting down trees for logs; Firewood, logs used for fuel; Lumber or timber, converted from wood logs; Logarithm, in mathematics; Log, LOG or LoG may also refer to:
Others worked with horses and oxen to pull in the logs that had strayed furthest out into the flats. [7] Bateaux ferried log drivers using pike poles to dislodge stranded logs while maneuvering with the log drive. [10] A wannigan was a kitchen built on a raft which followed the drivers down the river. [7]
Log boom on St. Croix River in Maine, aerial photo taken in 1973 Timber marks on a log building in Sweden where they are called flottningsmärke. A log boom (sometimes called a log fence or log bag) is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests. The term is also used as a place ...
The log scaler is an occupation in the timber industry. The Log Scaler measures the cut trees to determine the scale (volume) and quality (grade) of the wood to be used for manufacturing. When logs are sold, in order to determine the basis for a sale price in a standard way, the logs are "scaled" which means they are measured, identified as to ...