I've twict as many logs on the rollways of each camp as I had altogether last year.
Each camp will have its own rollways an' all we need is a tote road between 'em.
There's a little better than three million feet on the rollways that'll be wearin' the green triple X again they hit the sortin' gap.
I had to slip Long Leaf Olson the word when the rollways would be busted out so he could foul our drive an' git his logs in on the head end.
In the next breath he bellowed an order and the work of the rollways went on.
Trees were felled, the larger ones to be banked on the skidways and later hauled to the rollways to await the spring break-up, and the smaller ones to be collected and hauled to the new camp for building material.
Soon logs began to swirl by,--at first few, then many from the remaining rollways which the river had automatically broken.
The rollways are then broken, and the saw logs floated down the river to the mill where they are to be cut into lumber.
He saw his rollwaysbreaking out while his teams were still hauling in the woods.
The matter was, of course, more or less delayed by the necessity of breaking out suchrollways as they encountered from time to time on the banks.
Many of the bottom tiers of logs in the rollways had been frozen down, and Big Junko had to loosen them from the bed of the stream.
Kerlie," went on Thorpe, "your crew can break rollways with the rest until we get the river fairly filled, and then you can move on down stream as fast as you are needed.
From the breaking out of the rollways until the last log slips smoothly into its place in the boom-raft, no man's life is safe.
Day by day the black pyramids of the rollways lengthened, and the skidways were pushed farther and farther into the timber.
On the night of the 8th of April the cut was complete, and on the morning of the 9th ten million feet of logs towered on the rollways along the river, ready for the breaking up of the ice.
He realized dully that he might easily have passed the rollways hours ago.
They gained the top, and while rushing along the rollways could hear Moncrossen roaring his orders--could catch the words that foamed from his lips amid volleys of crashing oaths.
On the edge of a high bluff overlooking the rollways and the rushing waters she paused, leaning wearily against the bole of a giant birch.
For rollways must be broken out in the light of day, and the air rang with loud laughter and the rhythmic swing of roaring chanteys, as the men realized that they were not to be robbed of their gala day with its long night of feasting.
The few rollways that were broken out, however, were sufficient to cause a nasty jam, and far below where the girl stood the men of both crews worked furiously among the high-piled logs.
When the ice finally moved they attacked the rollways with fury, and the huge piles of great sticks cascaded thunderously into the water like huge amphibians.
But break the rollways out, me lads, an' let the big sticks slide, For one man killed within the woods ten's drownded on the drive.
I want to go up to the camps and see the rollways broken out and the banking grounds emptied.
Here the breaking of the rollways had reached a stage more exciting both to onlooker and participant than the mere opening of the river channel.
The old skunk knows his own rollways are so far down stream that he's safe, flood water or no flood water.
But also we expect you to break out your own rollways in time.
For why would he want sixty men to break out them little rollways of his'n up at the headwaters?
Orde," said he briefly and without preliminary, "didn't you tell me the other day that rollways were piled both on the banks and IN the river?
It now became necessary to break down therollways piled along the tops of the banks.
The Rough Red had charge of the banking, where his aggressive, brutal personality kept the rollways free from congestion.
And below, from the tributaries, from the other rollways a never-ending procession of recruits joined this great brown army on its way to the lake, until for miles and miles the river was almost a solid mass of logs.
It started from the lowermost rollways on the river, drove rapidly through the more unobstructed reaches, and was early pocketed above Monrovia in the Company's distributing booms.
As the rear was naturally the farthest up stream, Orde had taken also the contract to break the rollways belonging to Carlin, which in the season's work would be piled up on the bank.
Now, just one other thing: aren't Heinzman's rollways below most of the others?
No trouble was experienced until Heinzman's rollways were reached.
At noon they ate lunches they had brought with them in little canvas bags, snatched before they left the rollways from a supply handy by the cook.
One of the first things we'll do will be to boom through a channel where Mr. Man's rollways will be," said Orde.
Next morning, bright and early, the breaking of the rollways began.
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