two-by-sixes

Updated: April 30, 2025

But days of drudgery at the paddles transformed the makeshift hope into something almost like a certainty. There was no lumber at Rocky Point. We rummaged through a pile of driftwood and found some half-rotted two-by-sixes. These we hacked into paddles. They weighed, when thoroughly soaked, at least fifteen pounds apiece.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I

Two heavyset men wearing shorts, T-shirts, and baseball caps were easing a boulder from the truck bed onto an impromptu ramp of two-by-sixes. A woman with trim graying hair and tanned cheeks watched. The planks sagged ominously. "She hold?" "Plenty strong." "Damn stuck. Excuse me, Mrs. Nakano." "I've heard worse," she said. Oliver approached and braced one shoulder against the rock.

John Moncure Wetterau - O+F