Boom Chain with Pins (3)
Object/Artifact
Three pairs of hand-forged iron spikes attached with a short length of chain.
2021.07.51
Used by lumbering crews in the 18th and 19th centuries to bind, secure, and tow logs or construct timber rafts for river transport. The spikes were driven into the cut ends of logs to create a "necklace" that corralling free-floating logs as they moved down river or awaited processing at the mill site.
1835 Logging and Lumbering
Slusar, Vern
2021.07
See also 2015.32.09 boom chain
Fair
07/07/2021
09/30/2026