A bar or barrier consisting of a strong chain or line of connected spars, pieces of timber bound together, etc., stretched across a river or the mouth of a harbour to obstruct navigation.
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But it was quite a place at one time and at the back of the mill there was three large stone timbers and there were great big timbers. We called them booms. And there were (inc) around there too. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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Speaker: Ah wou-- wound the lo-- drew the logs. You-know the logs were in a boom. You-know what a boom is? Interviewer: Yeah. Yup yup. Speaker: Well that's okay, the logs were that and this crib would be out in the lake or the river, the river was wide there and then the horse would go 'round, 'round draw the logs from this boom. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
Yeah mm-hm. And-that and ah, it took them about three weeks to put the logs I-guess over the dam, a big boom of logs'd over that dam there and you-know and... |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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...the whole bit and then- and actually on his twenty-fifth birsday- birthday he got killed at the logging-camp. Some boom-truck had a big- all we heard was a big boom-truck with a- some huge logs on it swung around... |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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Well, well, there's ah lots of stories happen like there's my brothers and my cousins so as soon as over- soon as ah workday was over, we'd go and play, and we would run logs on the booms, big booms of logs out there. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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The- the lumbering moved- they started lumbering near Ottawa and they came up the river, they followed the river up, cross the big white pine trees on the edge and of-course, they had steamships to gather them into booms and take them and float them down the river to sawmills along the way and the Meteor- they, I guess, they were probably steamships on the on the lake |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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Well he put them on the- on ah cedars to fold on, the cord wouldn't be on a big boom and they'd put the cord wood through the same way. And they cord-wood was through to Haliburton and then in Haliburton there, he had an endless chain going out of the buc-- going out of the lake and that wet cord would do to come up and then you'd pile- pile it in the box car. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
Speaker: Pushing the logs through. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Boom would keep tightening eh? And then you keep- be log go cross ways you had to keep shoving them through. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
Speaker: Put that- winter's drive for three-hundred-and-fifty-dollars over and when they come to the narrows- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: They'd put the boom like this and bring the boom around and tie it there and tie it there- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And then they'd keep pulling one boom throw the narrows and then the river drivers would keep shoving the logs through and then after a while they'd get this boom full out here and they'd take it back around and fetch that one up and then they'd have a boom full and then they'd hitch on to those alligator or steam-boat and take it down to- put it over Scotch-Dame. |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
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And he couldn't imagine what was going on. In the full moon, she took him down to Maple-Lake, there was a steam-tug going down the lake with a boom logs under the full moon. He said- I know now that was the end of an era, you-know? |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
Because there was more opportunity, I-mean they- they got caught up in the war and then all that boom that came after the war and everybody was talking about all this opportunity and it certainly wasn't on one of these farms on Haliburton, you-know? |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |
They would winch themselves across. And then what they could do, they could also set up a cable on a- on an island or-something and- and winch the whole boom ahead eh? |
(log boom) a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forest |