On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
John McCoy wrote:

Flumes were more commonly used to move rough-cut lumber
from the sawmill to a finishing mill, than they were to
move logs. Some of them were large enough to float a
small boat, and the lumbermen would knock together crude
boats from the rough lumber and ride down when they had
a day off.

before the internet what else could they do

sounds fun

today the lawyers would gasp and babble on about liability and
so on and so forth