His powerful legs, made strong and sturdy by lifting heavy rocks and logs as a boy in Cimmeria and subsequent years of walking and running, propelled him along with effortless strides.
When felled logs sit adjacent to a road, heavy machinery may simply lift logs onto trucks.
When the terrain is too uneven to pull logs on the ground, a skyline can lift logs off the ground vertically, similar to a ski lift.
A derrick lifted logs and placed them into the cradle over a period of four to seven weeks.
The winches can be used with the log hoist to lift logs from the water onto the sawing platform and to pull the log carriages back to their starting position.
In India, an elephant was helping locals lift logs by following a truck and placing the logs in pre-dug holes upon instruction from the mahout (elephant trainer).
She found her love for weightlifting at the age of 12, lifting heavy logs to build tree houses with some of the neighbourhood boys.
Early steam sawmills included a hoist to lift logs out of the water onto a carriage which moved the log past a stationary powered saw.
Everywhere I looked were logs, millions of them: logs on trucks, logs on barges, logs being lifted, logs being dropped, logs six feet in diameter, logs cut to seventy-foot lengths, logs being dragged out of the forest and spewed downstream in endless herring-bone floats.
The skyline system involved two large spars (trees) used to create a "flying fox" to lift logs over the rough ground.