1715 · 1784 Herdsmen, raftsmen and woodcuttersPastieri, pltníci a drevorubači

By 1715 the town had 108 households, and by 1784 it had 254 houses and 1,450 people — large for a Turiec settlement. They lived by herding, by working timber, and above all by rafting. A plť was a raft of logs lashed together and steered downriver by two or three men; from Turany they rode the Váh down towards the lowland, sold the cargo and the raft itself, and walked home. Rafting was skilled, badly paid and dangerous, and for two centuries it was how the forests of the Malá Fatra reached the rest of the kingdom.V roku 1715 malo mestečko 108 domácností a v roku 1784 už 254 domov a 1 450 obyvateľov — na turčiansku obec dosť. Živili sa pastierstvom, spracovaním dreva a predovšetkým pltníctvom. Plť boli klady zviazané povrazmi a húžvami, ktoré riadili dvaja či traja muži; z Turian schádzali po Váhu dolu k nížine, predali náklad aj samotnú plť a domov sa vracali pešo. Pltníctvo bolo náročné, zle platené a nebezpečné remeslo, a dvesto rokov to bol jediný spôsob, ako sa lesy Malej Fatry dostali do zvyšku krajiny.