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Record 1 2001-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Transport of Wood
DEF

A pike pole used by log drivers to dismantle the mass of logs blocking the river drive.

CONT

The peavey was created by a blacksmith named John Peavey in 1870. The peavey was a combination of a Cant hook and a Jam pike. The cant hook was used to roll a log and the jam pike was used to pry the log.

Key term(s)
  • jam pike pole

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Transport du bois
DEF

Perche utilisée autrefois par les draveurs sur les cours d’eau afin de débloquer les embâcles provoqués par l’accumulation de bois flottés.

CONT

[...] les hardis draveurs aux pieds agiles et aux gestes sûrs munis soit d’une grosse gaffe de déblayage, soit d’une gaffe «pousse-billes» défont les embâcles et accélèrent la course du bois vers les usines de pâtes et papiers.

OBS

Équivalent et contexte tirés de l'article de Nolin Trudeau intitulé «La drave du bois à pâte : phénomène du printemps canadien», paru dans le supplément du dimanche 10 mai 1959 de l'Action catholique de Québec(quotidien disparu), à la première page.

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Wood
  • Silviculture
DEF

The floating of logs on rivers during spring time.

CONT

The Chippewa Logging Company purchased 111,000 acres of white pine land located on the west bank of the Chippewa river in Rusk County from Cornell University in the late 1880's. The streams that drained this land were short and difficult to drive logs on. A more dependable system to move logs out of the woods other than the annual spring drive was needed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du bois
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Transport par eau du bois flotté au printemps.

Spanish

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