Timber rafting
（重定向自Log raft）
![Timber raft by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1868.](/Images/godic/202501/24/FAHopkins_Lumber_Raft0425.jpg")
![Cookery on J.R. Booth's raft, circa 1880. The raftsmen cooked, ate and slept on these rafts as they floated down the river.](/Images/godic/202501/24/Timber_raft_18800425.jpg")
![Raftsmen in Northern Finland in 1930's](/Images/godic/202501/24/Tukinuittoa0425.jpg")
![Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973).](/Images/godic/202501/24/FISHERMEN_ON_A_COMMERCIAL_LOG_RAFT_ON_THE_WILLAMETTE_RIVER_-_NARA_-_5480180425.jpg")
Timber rafting is a log transportation method in which logs are tied together into rafts and drifted or pulled across a water body or down a flatter river. It is arguably the second cheapest method of transportation of timber, next after log driving. Both methods may be referred to as timber floating.