Term: Travois (logging)
Definition: A drag used to haul logs from woods to skid-way. Generally made from the natural fork of a tree with a cross piece bolted midway in the V. In using, one end of the log rested on travois the other end dragged on snow on the ground. The same as crazy-drag, go-devil, snow-snake. View more information about logging elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org
View pictures relating to logging at Wisconsin Historical Images.
[Source: Sorden, L.G. and Isabel J. Ebert. Logger's Words of Yesteryears. (Madison, 1956)]
