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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1963 quote.

See: haul-up,log tack

Quotations

1944

[Caption] . . . this seasoned river man guides them [logs] towards the jackladder of the sawmill.

1957

The giant pulpwood operations in the Lake Superior region are indicated by this view of a jackladder and surrounding booms of logs at Terrace Bay.

1963

Jack Ladder. An escalator-type moving iron belt that carries the logs from the mill pond into the mill's conveying system or to the mill's slasher where the logs are cut smaller.