Term: Trip-boom (logging)
Definition:
1. A log placed across a stream to hold the logs in a drive until the crew was ready to start them down. 2. A boom strung a safe distance above a dam, falls or fast rapids that could be opened to let logs through when the stream was clear, or closed quickly in case a jam formed below it. 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)]
