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log tack
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.
See: jackladder
Quotations
1961
Most of them [sawmills] were equipped with a log tack having an endless chain which took the logs out of the water and raised them to the level of the saws. . . .