Boom Chain with Pins (3)

Object/Artifact

Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

Name/Title

Boom Chain with Pins (3)

Entry/Object ID

2021.07.51

Description

Three pairs of hand-forged iron spikes attached with a short length of chain.

Context

Used by lumbering crews in the 18th and 19th centuries to bind, secure, and tow logs or construct timber rafts for river transport. The spikes were driven into the cut ends of logs to create a "necklace" that corralling free-floating logs as they moved down river or awaited processing at the mill site.

Collection

1835 Logging and Lumbering

Cataloged By

Slusar, Vern

Acquisition

Accession

2021.07

Notes

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Create Date

July 7, 2021

Update Date

September 30, 2026