10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEAVIES»
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peavies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Peavies,. Cant. Hooks,. and. Pulp. Hooks. The peavy (fig. 19) is another useful
tool for the logger. It is merely a heavy hardwood handle, shod at the lower end
with a steel ferrule ending in a spike, and having a dog hinged onto one side.
On Sunday at the Ann River Logging Company camp, lumberjacks had time to do
laundry and fix their axes and peavies; on occasion, a “sky pilot” or traveling
minister would hold religious services for the lumberjacks. In this photograph,
note ...
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A Treasury of Minnesota Tales: Unusual, Interesting, and ...
He liked to hand peavies to river hogs and tell them to drive his logs to the
nearest mill. Sometimes when they had a long way to go, the river was so full of
two-legged hogs handling peavies that wanigans went along with them. Bull-
cooks in ...
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The Wit and Humor of America (Complete)
We're spurred with the spikes in our soles; There is water aswash in our boots;
Our hands arehardcalloused by peavies and poles, And we're drenched with the
spume of the chutes; We gather our herds at the head, Where the axes have ...
... Mr. Kreamer wrote, "with pike poles pushing them or with peavies turning the
logs to keep them moving. This was one of the hardest of all jobs. It was cold and
they were wet most of the time and by dark they were ready to fall down.
They grab the broken stump with their peavies, roll it over to the fast-growing
heap and set the whole on fire. “All day the fight goes on. The blue smoke of the
fires hangs lazily over the field, and the Chinese move about in its clinging
wreaths ...
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The Northern Logger and Timber Processor
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%7~II> I? z} LOGGERS WORK BETTER WITH AMERICAN l.0G(il||(i PEAVIES ...
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Logging farm wood crops
Peavies, Cant Hooks, and Pulp Hooks The peavy (fig. 19) is another useful tool
for the logger. It is merely a heavy hardwood handle, shod at the lower end with a
steel ferrule ending in a spike, and having a dog hinged onto one side. With this ...
Fred Charles Simmons, 1962
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Northern Logger and Timber Processer
LOGGERS WORK BETTER WITH AMERICAN LOGGING PEAVIES AND CANT
HOOKS trtrtrCriftt-trCt In- & i Hand your loggers American Logging Peavies and
Cant Hooks and watch them work better, faster, more efficiently with these
famous ...
With the peavies, logs are grasped and turned and the men pull themselves up
out of the water, steady themselves when they must drop flat, and sometimes test
the depth of the river. As the drive gets underway and passes on ahead, behind it
...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEAVIES»
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peavies is used in the context of the following news items.
Back in time: Muller Boat Works
They also made tools for the lumber industry, such as peavies and cant hooks. Want to read more? Check out the Friday, Aug 1 edition of The ... «Stillwater Gazette, Aug 14»
Book Review: 'When Money Grew on Trees' by Greg Gordon
The lumberjacks steered the logs with their long hooked peavies and danced across them to break up jams; more than a few ended up crushed ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»
Jasper Rangers ruled Kankakee Marsh
... neighbors on Lone Oak Island discovered a cross-cut saw, some wedges, an ax, and two peavies hidden under some brush beside the river. «nwitimes.com, May 14»
