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Plug and knock down. A device for fastening boom sticks together in tlie 

 absence of chains. It consists of a withe secured by wooden plugs in holes 

 bored in the booms. (N. F.) 



Poacher, /;. 1. A retail lumber dealer who encroaches on the sales territory of 



another dealer. (Gen.) 



2. A wholesale lumber dealer who sells lumber to a retail lumberman, and 



then sells to the same retail lumberman's customers. (Gen.) 

 Pocket boom. A boom in which logs are held after they are sorted. (Gen.) 

 Point, n. Sec Bit. 



Point, r. (Lum.) In hoop making, to bevel both sides of the lapped end of the 

 hoop. (Gen.) 



(Log.) See Gun. 

 Pointer, v. See Tripper. 



Pokelogan, ii. A bav or pocket into which logs mav float during a drive. 

 (N. W., L. S.) 



8yn.: logau, set back. 



Pole chute. Sec Fore-and-aft road. 



Pole stock. Lumber used in the manufacture of poles for vehicles. (Gen.) 



Pole tie. A tie made from a stick of timber yielding only one tie. (Gen.) 



Pole tram road. A logging road, the rails of which are round poles. (App., S. F.) 



Pond man. One who collects logs in the mill pond and floats them to the log 

 haul-up. (Gen.) 



Syn.: boom man, slip man (P. C. F.), jacker (N. W.), jackerman (S. F.). 



Pond saw. A power-driven saw used to cross-cut logs at a sawmill pond. (Cal.) 



Pontoon, II. See Catamaran. 



Pony band mill. See Eesaw. 



Porch decking. A board surfaced and tongued and grooved whose upper face 

 has two or more semicircular depressions for carrying off rain water, and 

 whose lower surface often is beaded for ornamental purposes. It is used for 

 porch roofing. (Gen.) 



Portable mill setting. See Setting. 



Portable sawmill. A small sawmill which can be readily moved from one pla»!e 

 to tioaother. Tlie usual daily capacitv varies from 3 M to 10 M board feet. 

 (Gen.) 



Post, n. Sec Prop. 



Potter, n. A round stick, 3 or 4 inches in diameter and 2^2 or 3 feet long, 

 around the center of which is fitted an iron clasp to which is fastened a short 

 piece of chain with a hook on the free end. It is used when loading logging 

 sleds to prevent logs from rolling off the far side of the load until binding 

 chains are placed in position. (N. W.) 



Pouch, Ii. A French term applied derisively by lumber jacks to woods workers 

 who shift from camp to camp. (N. W.) Sec Gaiiip inspector. 



Preparer, n. Sec Fitter. 



Press roll. A live roll which holds the lund)er against the feed roll when Inniber 

 is being fed into a machine. (Gen.) 



Prime log. In the export market, one that is free from defects. (Gen.) 



Prize log. A log which comes to the sorting jack without marks denoting 

 ownership. (N. F.) »Sfec Stray. 



Progressive dry kiln. A dry kiln in which the lumber is gradually advance<l 

 throng!) the kiln, ;i few cars Iioing taken out of tiie dry end at certain inter- 

 vals and the remaining cars advanced to the dry end. The "green" enil of 

 the kiln tlicn receives cars of nnsensoned lumber. (Gen.) 



