Adirondack Mountains, New York.] [Illustration: Fig.8.Hauling Spruce Logs to the Skidway.

Adirondack Mountains, New York.] This finishes the second group of operations, the felling.

Next the logs are _dragged_ out to the dray roads, Fig.8.A heavy pair of tongs, like ice-tongs, is attached to one end, and the log is snaked out by horses to the skidway.

If the log is very heavy, one end is put on a dray.

By one way or another the log is dragged out and across the two parallel skids, on which it is rolled by cant-hooks to the end of skids toward the road way.