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Log Drive
Driver Using a Cable to Move Logs into the River
Driver Using a Cable to Move Logs into the River

Date: May 1st, 1957
Creator: L. B. Coburn, Studio Laporte
Source: Cdem Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: Various methods are used in a drive to move the 16-foot logs from their winter landings into the Little Tobique River and then to Fraser Companies Limited in Plaster Rock, N.B. Men using peavies move off the first layers. Then, as shown here, a cable is placed around a log bundle. A winch on a nearby tractor holds it up and pulls it loose into the river.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log Driving, Plaster Rock, Little Tobique River