What The Heck is This? Help Please

[Thogey]

Great first post!

Thanks Ray

[Thogey]

I believe the points are used to tie Log rafts together but the chain has been replaced to hang as decoration. the points can be longer it depends on hard wood or soft wood

Log Dogs

I can't tell you guys how many folks around here have guesses ,incorrectly what this is.

Awsome job.

[shinnosuke]

Those would be Log Dogs.

Log dogs.jpg

Log Dogs are driven into the ends of the logs and a chain is threaded through the 3/4" hole in the Log Dog to bind the logs...

log dog 4.jpg

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Log Dog 3.jpg

together into a raft for transport down the river or across the lake.

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/longleafalliance/teachers/glossary/logdog.htm

Go here to see some of the listings on E-pay that have sold.
http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_from=R4 ... ld=1&rt=nc

Your Log Dogs have been modified with an optional length of chain added to it for some other purpose.
Maybe to stabilize the far ends of the logs wile lifting one end at a time to build a log cabin or a bridge or something similar.

Hope this helps, I know this is an old thread but heck I just got here.
RAY

Hi RAY,
You're off to a good start. Thanks for your first post.

Tell us more about yourself here: viewforum.php?f=49

[Rodebaugh]

Nice work Ray on the Log Dogs

Next Question: Why do folks out west have such wide grout lines?

[RAY]

Well thanks guys but it looks like Rosco had explained it first.

No idea on the grout lines, unless maybe they serve as an expansion joint with all that humidity up their in the pacific northwest.

Ray

[johnbrickner]

I'm months late and more than a dollar short but it was well worth reading the entire thread for the first time. This group of people (Real Cent Members) should be in the same community when the time is right.

[shinnosuke]

I'm months late and more than a dollar short but it was well worth reading the entire thread for the first time. This group of people (Real Cent Members) should be in the same community when the time is right.

You are right about that!

[bruce hylton]

Log dogs and boom chain for fastening logs together to make a log boom to transport log on water.

[John_doe]

adam youngs jump rope.

[Rodebaugh]

Not sure but that Grout line is a little big....could give you problems down the road.

Listen young man. Don't get too big for your britches. I know you've been around for 30 years now but in the southwest we have saltillo tile and like big groutlines. It's a special grout and I laid that tile back when you thought breastmilk was the greatest thing since amniotic fluid, and never had any problems.

Now make yourself useful and tell me what the Iron is!

Laid some 12x12 granite today. Used zincolns as spacers....couldn't help but think of your silly grout lines.