cant hook

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A landing is built of cribwork and the logs are simply rolled on the truck with peavies or cant hooks, or a parbuckle system with skids and horses is used.

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Theirs was talk of cant hooks and spike poles, calipers and rafts.

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Going up against the current, only poles and cant hooks—tedious going.

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After my first rice tafel I dreamed I was a log jam and that lumber jacks with cant hooks were trying to pry me apart.

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A moment more, and Ba'tiste, with a sudden exclamation, allowed his cant hook to drop to the ground.

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