Wisconsin Code § 779.18

Log liens; priority
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(1) Any person who, personally or by a beast or machine or vehicle, performs any services in
cutting, hauling, running, felling, piling, driving, rafting, booming, cribbing, towing, sawing, peeling, kiln drying or manufacturing logs, timber, stave bolts, heading staves, pulp wood, cordwood, firewood, railroad ties, piling, telegraph poles, telephone
poles, fence posts, paving timber, tan or other barks or in preparing wood for or manufacturing charcoal shall have a lien upon the
material for the amount owing for the services, which shall take
precedence of all other claims, liens or encumbrances thereon or
sales thereof.
(2) The right of lien given by this section survives any change
in the property through manufacture and the lienor has a lien
upon the manufactured product as though the services had been
performed directly thereon.

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