chute-head

Updated: May 20, 2025

Upon the platform built over the skids were piled the tools of the crew, sawed blocks for the fire box, axes, saws, grindstones, all that was necessary in their task. At one o'clock they made their first move. At two the donkey was vanished into that region where the chute-head lay, and the great firs stood waiting the slaughter.

Bertrand W. Sinclair - Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest