Term: Turn (logging)
Definition:
1. A unit of logs being yarded. 2. Several thousand feet of logs held together by dogs, to be hauled along a skid-way. 3. A single trip and return made by one team in hauling logs; e.g., a four-turn road is a road the length of which will
permit only four round trips per day. Same as trip. 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)]
