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| Brag Load | An extremely large load or record load of logs on a sleigh. Often loaded especially for a photograph. | |
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Additional or regional comments : A BRAG LOAD by John Hyland  At one time I worked way up in the woods by Campbellton. I believe it was about 1926. It seemed that half the men from the Miramichi were working up there for a spell. I worked for Shrives Company. The railway traveled along the Restigouche River and we would jump on the train to buy cigarettes. It didn't go very fast there and you could jump on, buy some smokes and jump off again. Of course we were young and smart on our feet.One winter I had the job of loading logs on the sleds. The teamsters took the loads of logs out to the river and in the spring we drove them down stream to the mills. One day I put on a load of one hundred and three logs. When Ben Underhill, the boss, heard how big a load I built he came and asked me if it was true. I told him it was and he commented, "That's a mighty big load of logs and it's the nicest load I ever seen built."A day or two later he came back and told me to build a really big load. He wanted me to get real serious and build a record load. I was to be head man. He gave me three men and we set to work. Two of the men were brothers from Barnaby River. One of the brothers was Ed Casey and the other was Pat Casey. We took our time and picked our logs. We didn't use any big logs. We only picked out those that were about seven or eight inches across. My uncle, Jerry Kalian, had built an extra heavy set of bob-sleds with fourteen foot rockers and we built our load on it. The big rockers allowed us to build an extra wide load. In order to get a lot of logs on the sled she had to be piled straight up and square as a die. We put the logs one on top of the other and made sure there were none resting between the two logs beneath them. After that we used cross chains on every third tier and made them as tight as we could. When we were finished we had three hundred and fifty sticks of Timber on that sled! Up to that time Ontario had the record. They loaded three hundred and five logs. They said it was supposed to be a world record. We beat them by forty five logs! We had to bang the runners with our axes to help the horses get the sled started. The weight of the load bad the runners stuck to the ice. It only took one team of horses to pull it out to the river. We used the best team that Shrives owned and they pulled that sled over a mile out to the landing. They took a picture of that load with the teamster up on top. The picture was in the Campbellton newspaper. I had a copy of it but my sister cleaned out tile drawer one day and burnt it. I don't believe anyone ever beat us. I'm one hundred and one years old and up 'till now I never beard of anyone doing so. |
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