slob vAn' ....aboard o' the boat sometimes we'd have to launch, more times we'd have to slop-haul.* - that meant that we had slop-haulers*- we had, that was now pieces of pork barrel stave sawed off an' a hole put through it, an' a handle into it; and you take this an'....You get back in the stern o' the boat, one on each side, an' you reach out there and _ and those pork barrel staves would go through the ice; (she) kep' you hove (?) on the ice an' you would pull the boat. When _ when 'twas not strong enough to launch over it, and _an' 'twouldn't bear the boat, the ice would be strong enough to ahul the boat through. (*= my spelling)YesDNE-cit J.D.A. WIDDOWSONJUL 1973Used I and SupUsed I2Used IQUAR(R), slob hauler, slob...