sisted of a couple of cooks, who worked alternately; 

 two or three K. P. 's who worked as permanent K. 

 P. 's ; that is, that was their permanent job ; a stable 

 boss who was also the saddler and had to repair the 

 harnesses and wagons as well as take care of the 

 horses; one man who drove the water wagon (it was 

 necessary to haul the water for the horses and men 

 some three miles) ; the sealer, who tallied the daily 

 output and reported both to the company headquarters 

 and to the French Forestry officials; and the woods 

 crew. The felling crew usually consisted of three 

 men, two fellers, who did their own bucking, and 

 a swamper, who trimmed the felled trees and cut the 

 branches and tops into fuel wood one meter in length, 

 and piled it in piles of one cubic meter each. A cubic 

 meter is the French unit of fuel wood and is known 

 as a stere. The number of felling crews varied with 

 the supply of men available which was never very 

 large. The other crews were the skidding crews and 

 the loading crew. The skidders usually worked in 

 pairs, consisting of one skinner and one tailer. The 

 skinner did the driving and the tailer did the hooking 

 and unhooking. When dollies were used one tailer us- 

 ually loaded for all the skinners, who worked in his 

 vicinity, and the skinners did their own unhooking. 

 The methods used will be described a little later. The 

 loading crew usually consisted of four or five men. 

 nearly always five if there were that many men avail- 

 able. One man drove the team for the cross haul, 

 and the other four did the loading. It might be well 

 to mention in passing that their job was no snap, and 

 with muddy, slippery logs was rather dangerous as 



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