skid-road

They took their lives in their hands on skid-road and spring-board, that such as she might flourish.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

And without fully realizing the direction she took, she walked down past the camp, crossed the skid-road, stepping lightly over main line and haul-back at the donkey engineer's warning, and went along the lake shore.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

She could see a string of logs tearing down the skid-road.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

"The old skid - road is impassable, and after you leave the end of the skid-road, the trail in to Mother's grave is so overgrown with buckthorn and wild lilac I doubt if a rabbit could get through it comfortably."

The Valley of the Giants 1918

She reorganized that old skid-road so even an old blind duffer like me can find his way in and out without getting lost -- and she had this easy-chair made for me.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

Some woods-boss, that -- and his first job with this company was the dirtiest you could hand him -- smearing grease on the skid-road at a dollar and a half a day and found.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

And with his father's body in his strong arms he departed from the little amphitheatre, walking lightly with his heavy burden down the old skid-road to the waiting automobile.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

Presently he emerged on the old, decaying skid-road and continued on through his logged-over lands, across the little divide and down into the quarter-section of green timber he had told McTavish not to cut.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

Built on tidewater and at the mouth of a large slough in the waters of which he stored the logs his woods-crew cut and peeled for the bull - whackers to haul with ox-teams down a mile-long skid-road, vessels could come to Cardigan's mill dock to load and lie safely in twenty feet of water at low tide.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

From the fringe of the thicket thus formed, the terminus of an old skid-road showed and a signboard, freshly painted, pointed the way to the Valley of the

The Valley of the Giants 1918