To feed the voracious appetite of the housing industry timber is needed. (Price is falling.) Going in and out of the the fjord-like inlets of this part of the B.C. coast it is possible to see the scale of logging or 'harvesting'. Fresh-cut logs are brought out of the forest by truck or helicopter and gathered in log booms at various points along the coast.
To feed the voracious appetite of the logging industry diesel is needed. (Price is rising.) One of the deliveries in a long day was diesel for the logging company. The big fuel hose was trundled ashore and placed in the diesel tank at the top of the site.
This log dump was a hive of activity as logging trucks regularly arrived with 'food' for the sawmills. The log loader (orange and turquoise) quickly and with great dexterity moved logs from the truck and stacked them on a 'crib', i.e. a base with 2 metal poles along the seaward side which were at right angles to the log pile. Once the pile was high enough the 'crib side' holding them in place was dropped and they slid down the steep skid-way .... kersplash .... into the water.
To feed the voracious appetite of the logging industry diesel is needed. (Price is rising.) One of the deliveries in a long day was diesel for the logging company. The big fuel hose was trundled ashore and placed in the diesel tank at the top of the site.
This log dump was a hive of activity as logging trucks regularly arrived with 'food' for the sawmills. The log loader (orange and turquoise) quickly and with great dexterity moved logs from the truck and stacked them on a 'crib', i.e. a base with 2 metal poles along the seaward side which were at right angles to the log pile. Once the pile was high enough the 'crib side' holding them in place was dropped and they slid down the steep skid-way .... kersplash .... into the water.
I felt like shouting "Gardyloo!" This word is a corruption, actually an Anglicization, of the French "gardez l'eau" which was the cry of Edinburgh folk to warn pedestrians below when slops (i.e. 'night soil') from upstairs windows were about to be thrown into the street.)
What about "Gardylogs!" ?
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