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Split roof. A roof of a logging camp or barn made by laying strips split from 

 straight-grained timber. The strips run from the ridge pole to the eaves, and 

 break the joints with other strips, as in a shingle roof. (N. F.) 

 Syn.: shake roof (Cal.). trough roof (P. C. F.). 



Split stave. A stave that is split from a stave-cut by means of a froe, mallet, 

 and wedges. (Gen.) 



Split staves, to. To make split staves. (Gen.) 



Spoke billets. The rough sawed piece from which spokes are turned. (Gen.) 

 See Blank. 



Spoke bolt. (S'ee Bolt. 



Spool bar. Small sawed squares of lumber from which spools are turned. (N. F.) 

 Syn.: spoolwood. (E.G.) 



Spool donkey. A donkey engine equipped with a spool or capstan, instead of a 

 drum. (P. C.F.) 



Syn.: dolbeer (Cal.), gypsy yarder, donkey. 



Spool tender. 1. One who guides the cable on a spool donkey. (P. C. F.) 

 2. One who operates the loading drum on a donkey. (P. C. F., R. M. F.) 



Spoolwood. See Spoolbar. 

 Spot, V. 1. See Blaze. 



2. To place logging cars at a loading point or opposite a landing. (S. F., 

 P. C. F.) 

 Spotting line. A cable by which a log loader or power skidder moves itself for 

 short distances; also a line used to pull empty log cars into position for load- 

 ing. (S. F., P. C. F.) 

 Sprag. See Gooseneck. 



Spreader, n. 1. A stout stick which holds apart the free ends of two chains 

 which are attached to a large ring. The term is often applied to the entire 

 rig. The spreader is used in skidding on rough bottom or on steep grades 

 in place of a doubletree. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: equalizer, stretcher. 



2. A piece of steel rail used to separate the loading hooks in loading with 

 a gin pole. (P. C. F.) 

 Spring board. (Log.) A short board, shod at one end with an iron calk, which 

 is inserted in a notch cut in a tree, on which the faller stands while felling the 

 tree. (P. C. F.) See Bucking board. 

 Syn.: chopping board. 



(Lum.) The support on which shingles rest while being jointed, so called 

 Ijecause it springs back into place after having been pushed down so that the 

 shingle is brought into contact with the saw. (Gen.) 

 Spring pole. 1. A springy pole attached to the tongue of a logging sled and 

 passing over the roll and under the beam, for holding the weight of the tongue 

 off the horses' necks. (N. F.) 



2. A device for steadying a cross-cut saw so that one man can use it in- 

 stead of two. (P. C. F.) 

 Spring set. A saw is spring set when one tooth is sprung slightly to the right 

 and the next one to the left, and so on alternately throughout the saw. Cross- 

 cut saws arc spring set; also very narrow band saws. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: beveled dress, briar dress. (P. C. F.) 

 Sprinkler, n. A large wooden tank from which water is sprinkled over logging 

 sled roads during freezing weather in order to ice the surface. (N. W.,L. S.) 

 Syn.: ice box, tank, water box. 

 Sprinkler sleds. The sleds upon which the sprinkler is mounted. They consist 

 of two sleds whose runners turn up at each end, fastone<l together by cross 

 chains, each having a tongue, in order that the sprinkler may bo hauled in 

 either direction without turning around. (N. F.) 



