I followed him across the log he had made by chopping down a white oak,felling it over the stream

I followed him across the log he had made by chopping down a white oak,felling it over the stream.
我简单看了一下上下文,讲的是一个男人和他父亲的事情.
log 是原木的意思,我觉得这里是架在小溪上的,应该可以翻译成独木桥.
我跟在他（作者的父亲）的后面,走过一座横架在小溪上的独木桥,这座独木桥,是他用以前砍下的白栎树制成的.