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guide logs past an obstruction, or to throw all the 

 water on one side of an island. 



Pij;. See rigging sled. 



Pig Tail. An iron device driven into trees or stumps to 

 support a wire or small rope. 



Pike Pole. A piked pole, twelve to twenty feet long, 

 used in river driving. 



Pitch Pocket. A cavity in wood filled with resin. 



Pitch Streak. A seam or shake filled with resin. 



Plug and Knock Down. A device for fastening boom 

 sticks together, in the absence of chains. It consists 

 of a withe secured by wooden plugs in holes bored in 

 the booms. 



Pocket Boom. A boom in which logs are held after they 

 are sorted. 



Point. See gun. 



Pokelogan. A bay or pocket into which logs may float 

 off during a drive. 



Pole. A tree from four to twelve inches in diameter 

 breasthigh. See tree class. A small pole is a tree 

 from four to eight inches in diameter breasthigh. A 

 large pole is a tree from eight to twelve inches in 

 diameter breasthigh. 



Pond Man. One who collects logs in the mill pond and 

 floats them to the gangway. 



Pontoon. See catamaran. 



Present Yield. The amount of wood at present contained 

 in given trees upon a given area. 



Private Forest. A forest which is the property of an 

 in dividual, corporation, company, or private insti- 

 tution. 



Prize Logs. Logs which come to the sorting jack with- 

 out marks denoting ownership. 



Pruning. The removal of branches from standing trees 

 by natural or artificial means. The clearing of the 

 stem through the death and fall of branches for want 

 of light is known as natural pruning. When living 

 branches are removed by cutting them close to the 

 stem the operation is known as green pruning; when 

 it is confined to dead branches, as dry pruning. Some 

 mill men will not buy logs known to have been 

 pruned. 



Pull Back. See haul back. 



Pull Boat. A flatboat, carrying a steam skidder or a 

 donkey, used in logging cypress. 



Pull the Briar. To use a crosscut saw. 



Put In. In logging, to deliver logs at the landing. 



Pure Forest. Forest composed of trees of one species. 



