Post by Bush Ape on Mar 17, 2013 17:22:50 GMT -5
Axle Grease: butter
Barking spud: used to limb logs and peel bark
Bait Can: lunch bucket
Bean Burner: a bad cook
Big Wheel: two large iron wheels with a metal link used to pull logs out of the bush with a team of oxen
Bone Butcher: a doctor
Bone Yard: a place for worn out machinery
Brains: bosses or owners
Buckers: these men cut the tree into specific lengths once the tree has been cut down
Bucking Saw: a kind of cross-cut saw used to cut the trees into lengths once it had been chopped down. These saws were more rigid, straighter across the back, had a longer handle and shorter than the crosscut saws used to fall trees.
Buckwheater: newcomer to the woods
Bull of the Woods: a superintendent or foreman
Bull Bucker: boss of fallers or buckers
Bull Cook: man who make beds, chops wood and does other odd jobs around the camp
Bunch It: to quit
Bunkhouse: camp logger's home
Bush Ape: a logger
By the Face: being in charge
Cackleberries: eggs
Candy-side: the best logging site possible
Cat: tractor
Catty: the ultimate compliment for a rigging man - means quick on his feet and good on the job
Caulk Boots: pronounced, "cork". Boots with short, heavy spikes in the soles and heels to give loggers sure footing while walking on logs.
Chaser: he unhooks the chokers from logs at spar tree, generally required to be a good cable splicer
Choker: steel cables with hook end to put on logs. It works like a noose to hold the log tight.
Chokerman: the one who fastens the chokers around the logs. He "sets" the chokers.
Chunk Out: means to clean something, get rid of something
Copenhagen: Chewing tobacco
Crosscut Saws: hand saw that needed 2 men to operate it. It cut across the tree and was used to both fall trees and cut the tree into specific lengths once it had been cut down.
Crummy: the truck or railroad car used to haul the crew to and from work
Dentist: a saw filer
Donkey: a portable machine with drums used to pull logs out of the bush. The donkey engine is usually mounted on a sled that can be moved from place to place.
Donkey Doctor: mechanic
Donkey Puncher: the man that operates the donkey engine
Draw Day: payday
Fallers: loggers who cut down the trees
Falling Saw: particular type of crosscut saw used to fall trees
Family Camp: logging camp with houses for families
Flunkey: the person who served the meals in the logging camp
Fly Bread: raisin bread
Galloping Goose: any small stream or diesel engine not running smoothly
Gas Fake: a donkey powered by gas, the name was coined by loggers used to working with steam, and who were skeptical of any other kind of power.
Gear Stripper/Jammer: truck driver
Guthammer: dinner gong
Gyppo: a small logging outfit that was usually poor
Hand Faller: the person who fells trees using hand tools such as an axe and a crosscut saw
Hardtack Outfit: a logging operation that sets a poor table
Hashhouse: the cookhouse
Hash Rassler: a flunkey or cookee
Hay Burners: horses
Hooking: hooktender - he is in charge of the whole operation of getting logs from the woods to landing at the spar tree
Inkslinger: a person who works in an office
Jewelry: Truck chains, hooks, blocks, cables, etc.
Jobshark: employment agency
Jungle: name for logging camps and woods (the deep woods)
Kitchen Mechanic: the dishwasher
Lilly Pad Splitter: used for splitting blocks and preparing logs for the chipper
Locie: a logging locomotive
Log Brand: ownership marks hammered in log butt ends to prevent theft
Logger's can opener: an axe
Meat on the Hooks, Pick up the Slacks: means that the rigger is ready to come down on the passline, and is a signal for the engineer to tighten the passline and take the rigger's weight on the line - then the rigger will free his rope from the tree and come down the line.
Misery Whip: a poorly sharpened cross-cut saw, which made more work for the loggers
Monkey Blankets: pancakes
Muck Stick: shovel
Mud: coffee
Mug Up: having a cup of coffee
Mulligan Mixer: cook
Nose Bag: cold lunch eaten in the woods
Open-Slash: logged off country
Overland Trout: bacon
Pass the 44's: Pass the beans
Pencil Pusher: timekeeper, office worker
Pull the pin: quitting
Puncher:
Push: camp foreman
Queen's Palace: separate bunkhouses for female cook employees
Ranchers: greenhorns
Rár of Snooze: a gob of snooze. There was an art to chewing tobacco which separated the 'dudes' from the real loggers
Scissor-Bill: a dull or stupid person
Skid Grease: butter
Snoose: chewing tobacco
Soup: the superintendent of the camp
Springboards: a board with a steel show on one end inserted into a notch in the tree, used by fallers as a platform
Stake: saved up wages
Stanfields: long wool underwear (true loggers wear their underwear over their clothing)
Steam Donkey: the engines that yarded or pulled the logs to the landing
Sunshine Loggers: loggers who only like to work in good weather
Swedish fiddle: a crosscut saw
Take the Long Sleep: refers to the winter closure of a logging site
Tar: really bad coffee
Timberrr!: this used to be yelled out to warn others that a tree is about to fall
Tin Hat: hard hat (made of aluminum or plastic, not made out of tin)
Tin Pants: heavy, water-repellent trousers. Tin pants were also called stag pants. These pants had no cuffs.
Trackside: a logging setting where the spar tree is located at the road, or trackside
Undercut: notch cut out of the base of the tree which regulated the direction of the three's fall
Whiffletree: a wooden crossbar used to cleave two trees
Whistle Bug: used by the whistle punk to sound whistle signals from the donkey
Whistle Punk: the person who operates a steam whistle or horn as a means of communication in the woods
Widowmaker: a loose limb hanging high in a tree (could seriously hurt a logger if it fell)
Wooding them Down: loading a truck or vehicle to capacity
Barking spud: used to limb logs and peel bark
Bait Can: lunch bucket
Bean Burner: a bad cook
Big Wheel: two large iron wheels with a metal link used to pull logs out of the bush with a team of oxen
Bone Butcher: a doctor
Bone Yard: a place for worn out machinery
Brains: bosses or owners
Buckers: these men cut the tree into specific lengths once the tree has been cut down
Bucking Saw: a kind of cross-cut saw used to cut the trees into lengths once it had been chopped down. These saws were more rigid, straighter across the back, had a longer handle and shorter than the crosscut saws used to fall trees.
Buckwheater: newcomer to the woods
Bull of the Woods: a superintendent or foreman
Bull Bucker: boss of fallers or buckers
Bull Cook: man who make beds, chops wood and does other odd jobs around the camp
Bunch It: to quit
Bunkhouse: camp logger's home
Bush Ape: a logger
By the Face: being in charge
Cackleberries: eggs
Candy-side: the best logging site possible
Cat: tractor
Catty: the ultimate compliment for a rigging man - means quick on his feet and good on the job
Caulk Boots: pronounced, "cork". Boots with short, heavy spikes in the soles and heels to give loggers sure footing while walking on logs.
Chaser: he unhooks the chokers from logs at spar tree, generally required to be a good cable splicer
Choker: steel cables with hook end to put on logs. It works like a noose to hold the log tight.
Chokerman: the one who fastens the chokers around the logs. He "sets" the chokers.
Chunk Out: means to clean something, get rid of something
Copenhagen: Chewing tobacco
Crosscut Saws: hand saw that needed 2 men to operate it. It cut across the tree and was used to both fall trees and cut the tree into specific lengths once it had been cut down.
Crummy: the truck or railroad car used to haul the crew to and from work
Dentist: a saw filer
Donkey: a portable machine with drums used to pull logs out of the bush. The donkey engine is usually mounted on a sled that can be moved from place to place.
Donkey Doctor: mechanic
Donkey Puncher: the man that operates the donkey engine
Draw Day: payday
Fallers: loggers who cut down the trees
Falling Saw: particular type of crosscut saw used to fall trees
Family Camp: logging camp with houses for families
Flunkey: the person who served the meals in the logging camp
Fly Bread: raisin bread
Galloping Goose: any small stream or diesel engine not running smoothly
Gas Fake: a donkey powered by gas, the name was coined by loggers used to working with steam, and who were skeptical of any other kind of power.
Gear Stripper/Jammer: truck driver
Guthammer: dinner gong
Gyppo: a small logging outfit that was usually poor
Hand Faller: the person who fells trees using hand tools such as an axe and a crosscut saw
Hardtack Outfit: a logging operation that sets a poor table
Hashhouse: the cookhouse
Hash Rassler: a flunkey or cookee
Hay Burners: horses
Hooking: hooktender - he is in charge of the whole operation of getting logs from the woods to landing at the spar tree
Inkslinger: a person who works in an office
Jewelry: Truck chains, hooks, blocks, cables, etc.
Jobshark: employment agency
Jungle: name for logging camps and woods (the deep woods)
Kitchen Mechanic: the dishwasher
Lilly Pad Splitter: used for splitting blocks and preparing logs for the chipper
Locie: a logging locomotive
Log Brand: ownership marks hammered in log butt ends to prevent theft
Logger's can opener: an axe
Meat on the Hooks, Pick up the Slacks: means that the rigger is ready to come down on the passline, and is a signal for the engineer to tighten the passline and take the rigger's weight on the line - then the rigger will free his rope from the tree and come down the line.
Misery Whip: a poorly sharpened cross-cut saw, which made more work for the loggers
Monkey Blankets: pancakes
Muck Stick: shovel
Mud: coffee
Mug Up: having a cup of coffee
Mulligan Mixer: cook
Nose Bag: cold lunch eaten in the woods
Open-Slash: logged off country
Overland Trout: bacon
Pass the 44's: Pass the beans
Pencil Pusher: timekeeper, office worker
Pull the pin: quitting
Puncher:
Push: camp foreman
Queen's Palace: separate bunkhouses for female cook employees
Ranchers: greenhorns
Rár of Snooze: a gob of snooze. There was an art to chewing tobacco which separated the 'dudes' from the real loggers
Scissor-Bill: a dull or stupid person
Skid Grease: butter
Snoose: chewing tobacco
Soup: the superintendent of the camp
Springboards: a board with a steel show on one end inserted into a notch in the tree, used by fallers as a platform
Stake: saved up wages
Stanfields: long wool underwear (true loggers wear their underwear over their clothing)
Steam Donkey: the engines that yarded or pulled the logs to the landing
Sunshine Loggers: loggers who only like to work in good weather
Swedish fiddle: a crosscut saw
Take the Long Sleep: refers to the winter closure of a logging site
Tar: really bad coffee
Timberrr!: this used to be yelled out to warn others that a tree is about to fall
Tin Hat: hard hat (made of aluminum or plastic, not made out of tin)
Tin Pants: heavy, water-repellent trousers. Tin pants were also called stag pants. These pants had no cuffs.
Trackside: a logging setting where the spar tree is located at the road, or trackside
Undercut: notch cut out of the base of the tree which regulated the direction of the three's fall
Whiffletree: a wooden crossbar used to cleave two trees
Whistle Bug: used by the whistle punk to sound whistle signals from the donkey
Whistle Punk: the person who operates a steam whistle or horn as a means of communication in the woods
Widowmaker: a loose limb hanging high in a tree (could seriously hurt a logger if it fell)
Wooding them Down: loading a truck or vehicle to capacity
