Good chance that's the explanation since there was plenty of log skidding done by horses around here. Thanks. There's still a guy down the highway who keeps horses for skidding. They work well for people who have small wood lots and don't want to tear up their bush with a bunch of trails for machine skidders. I guess it also makes sense to find something used in skidding near an old boom anchor. Then as now, I imagine there was some local distribution of boomed logs and the area would have been a good pick up point. Just retrieve a log from the boom with a pointer (large rowboat used for getting logs ‘pointed’ in the right direction) and pick up the log from shore. We inherited a set of pointer oars with one of our sheds.

My 70-year old neighbour worked as a timber marker rather than a logger and may not have recognized mystery iron. A friend at Bissett used a horse for skidding until some years ago. He is now dump superintendent and probably would have recognized it. Ironically, I was at the dump last Thursday, the clevis or shackle was in the 1/2-bed and I could have asked him.

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