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Feed rolls. Live rollers with a smooth, corrugated or rough surface, which are 

 used to feed lumber into an edger, resaw, planer, or other machine. (Gen.) 

 l^ec Live rollers. 



Felloe. See Felly. 



Felly, n. One of the curved segments of the rim of a wdieel between the spokes 

 and the tire. It is sawed to the shape in which it is used. (Gen.) Sec Eim. 

 Syn.: felloe. 



Fence boom. A patent log-towing boom used at one time on the Great Lakes. 



(E. C.) 

 Fencing, ii. A grade of rough 1-inch softwood lumber usually 4 or 6 inches in 



width. (Gen.) 

 Fender boom. See Shear boom. 

 Fibre-saturation point. In seasoning wood, that point at which all the free 



water has been driven off and the cell walls begin to dry. (Gen.) 

 Fiddle butts. Large spruce butt logs suitable for the manufacture of musical 



instruments. (N. W.) 

 Fid hook. A slender, flat hook used to keep another hook from slipping on a 



chain. (N. W., L. S.) 

 Figure-grained. See Quarter-sawed. 

 File a saw, to. See Fit a saw, to. 



Filer, n. (Log.) One who files the cross-cut saws in the woods. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: saw fitter. 



(Lum.) One who fits saws in a sawmill or other woodworking plant. (Gen._) 

 Fin boom. A form of boom used on navigable streams (where permanent booms 



are not allowed) to direct logs from one side of the stream to the other. By 



changing the angle between the fins attached on the down-stream face of the 



boom and the boom itself the latter may be thrown across the stream at any 



angle less than 90 degrees. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: rudder boom. (P. C. F.) 

 Fine grain. AVood is said to have a fine grain when the annual rings of growth 



are narrow^ (Gen.) 

 Finish, n. The higher grades of lumber. (S. F., L. S.) 



Byn.: finishing, uppers. 

 Finishing. See Finish. 

 Firm red heart. Firm heartwood which has a reddish color due to decayed wood 



adjacent to it. It is an incipient stage of red rot. (S. F.) 

 Syn.: red heart. 

 First open water. See F. O. W. 

 Firsts and Seconds. See F. A. Si 

 Fish plate. A narrow bar of steel having from four to six holes through which 



bolts may be inserted. Two fish plates are used to join steel rails at the joints, 



one plate being placed against each side of the web and both bolted to it. 



(Gen.) 

 Fit, V. 1. To notch a tree for falling and after it is felled to mark it into the 



log lengths into which it is to be cut. (N. F.) 

 2. To ring, split, and peel tanbark. (N. F.) 

 Fit a saw, to. To put it into proper condition for sawing. (Gen.) 



Syn.: file a saw, to. 

 Fitter, n. 1. One who notches the tree for felling and after it is felled marks 



the log lengths into which it is to be cut. (N. F.) 



2. One who cuts limbs from felled trees and rings and slits the bark pre- 

 paratory to peeling tanbark. (N. F.) 

 Syn.: preparer. 

 Five-ply veneer. A piece of built-up veneer composed of five pieces glued one to 



the other. See Laminated wood. 



