Road-Icer, The

DESCRIPTION: "There are some of us, I guess, Call ourselves self-made men an such, But then there was that other cuss Went out and iced the road for us."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan)
KEYWORDS: logger travel
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, p. 123, "The Road-Icer" (1 short text)
Roud #6509
NOTES [101 words]: The idea of icing a road seems mad today, used as we are to cars that skid on ice -- but it should be kept in mind that loggers were not carrying logs on wheeled trucks using paged roads; they were hauling them by human or animal power to a river. This meant that they needed as little friction as possible on the log-paths. Which means that the paths needed to be icy: "the logs were moved to the riverside by sleigh, in winter-time, because it was only on road of glare ice that land transportation was possible" (Bruce Catton, Michigan, A History, 1972, 1976 (I use the 1984 Norton edition), p. 105). - RBW
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