APPENDIX 501 



Sawyer, n. See Faller. 



Scale book. A book especially designed for recording the contents of scaled 



logs. (Gen.) 

 Scaler, ;;. One who determines the volume of logs. (Gen.) 

 Scalper, n. See Rosser. 

 Scoot, n. See Dray. 

 Season check. See Check. 

 Second faller. The subordinate in a crew of fallers. (P. C. F.) 



Syn.: helper. (N. F.) 

 Self-loading dam. See Rafter dam. 

 Send-up man. That member of a loading crew who guides the logs up the 



skids. (Gen.) 



Syn.: ground loader. (N. F.) 

 Send up, to. In loading, to raise logs up skids with cant hooks, or by steam 



or horse power. (Gen.) 

 Setting, u. The temporary station of a portable sawmill, a yarding engine, 



or other machine used in logging. (Gen.) 

 Shake, //. A crack in timber, due to frost or wind. (Gen.) 



Syn.: windshake. 

 Shanty boat. See Wanigan. 

 Shanty boss. See Chore boy. 

 Sheer boom. A boom so secured that it guides floating logs in the desired 



direction. (N. F.) 



Syn.: fender boom, glancing boom. 

 Sheer skid. See Fender skid. 



Shoot a jam, to. To loosen a log jam with dynamite. (Gen.) 

 Shore hold. The attachment of the hawser of a raft of logs to an object on 



the shore. (N. W., L. S.) 

 Short road. See Go-back road. 



Shot holes. Holes made in wood by boring insects. (App.) 

 Side jam. A jam which has formed on one side of a stream, usually where 



the logs are forced to the shore at a bend by the current, or where the 



water is shallow or there are partially submerged rocks. (N. F.) 

 Side mark. See Bark mark. 

 Side winder. A tree knocked down unexpectedly by the faUing of another. 



(Gen.) 

 Signal man. One who transmits orders from the foreman of a yarding crew 



to the engineer of the yarding donkey. (P. C. F.) 

 Single out, to. To float logs, usually cypress, one at a time, from the woods 



to the float road. (S. F.) 

 Sinker, u. See Deadhead. 

 Sinker boat. See Catamaran. 

 Skid, V. I. To draw logs from the stump to the skidway, landing or mill. 



(Gen.) 



Syn.: snake, twitch. 



