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Logs on the flume: the sawmill races its timber down the hill
A wooden flume brings the logs down from the woods to the Riverside Sawmill. Flip the gates to sort them, poke the jams free, and load the barge.
The logs wait in a pond at the top of the hill. Open the sluice and one shoots off down a wooden flume on stilts, round the bends and down to the yard.
At the bottom it can go three ways. Pine and birch go to the big saw and come out as bundles of planks. Oak goes straight onto the barge for the Woodshop, and rotten old logs with toadstools on go into the chipper, for the paper mill. Tap a gate to flip it, and its arrow goes green when it is set right for the log that is coming.
Let the logs go too close together and one swings round at a bend and jams. Poke it with the pike pole until it comes free with a whoosh. Every so often Maggie sends a big run down from the woods, a whole string of logs to sort, with a bonus for each one that goes the right way. When the barge is loaded, send it off downriver to be sold.
