36 TERMS USED IX FORESTRY AXD LOGGING. 



Drag cart. See Bummer. 



Drag- in, to. See Dray in, to. 



Drag road. ^See Dray road ; Gutter road. 



Drag sled. See Dray. 



Draw hook. See Gooseneck. 



Draw skid. See Brow skid. 



Dray, n. A single sled used in dragging logs. One end of the log rests' upon the 



sled. (N. F.) 



Syn. : bob, crotch, drag sled, go-devil, lizard, scoot, skidding sled, sloop, travois. 

 Dray in, to. To drag logs from the place where they are cut directly to the skid- 

 way or landing. (N. F. ) 

 Syn. : drag in, to. 

 Dray road. A narrow road, cut wide enough to allow the passage of a team and 



dray. (X. F.) 

 Syn. : drag road. 

 Drive, v. To float logs or timbers from the forest to the mill or shipping point. 



(Gen.) 

 Syn.: float. 

 Drire, n. 1. A body of logs or timbers in process of being floated from the forest 



to the mill or shipping point. (Gen. ) 



2. That part of logging which consists in floating logs or timbers. (Gen.) 

 Drum logs, to. To haul logs by drum and cable out of a hollow or cove. (App.) 

 Dry-ki, a. Trees killed by flooding. (N. F.) 

 Dry pick. to. As applied to a jam, to remove logs singlv while the water is cut off. 



(*^. F.)' 

 Dry roll, to. In sacking the rear, to roll stranded logs into the bed of the stream 



from which the water has been cut off preparatory to flooding. (X. F. ) 

 Dry rot. Decay in timber without apparent moisture. (Gen.) 

 Dry slide. See Slide. 

 Dry sloop, to. To sloop logs on bare ground when the slope is so steep that it 



would be dangerous to sloop on snow. (X. F.) 

 Dudler, w. /See Dudley. 

 Dudley, n. An engine for hauling logs, which propels itself and drags its load by 



revolving a large spool around which are several turns of a cable fixed at each end 



of the track. (P. C. F.) 

 Syn. : dudler. 

 Duffle, n. The personal belongings of a woodsman or lumberjack which he takes 



into the woods. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: dunnage. (X. W. ) 

 Dump hook. A levered chain grab hook attached to the evener to which a team is 



hitched in loading logs.' A movement of the lever releases the hook from the 



logging chain without stopping the team. (X. F. ) 

 Dump logs, to. To roll logs over a bluff, or from a logging car or sled into the water. 



(Gen.) 

 Dunnage, n. See Duffle. 

 Dust a dam, to. To fill up with earth or gravel the cracks or small holes between 



planks in the gate of a splash dam. (X. W. ) 

 Dutchman, n. A short stick placed transversely between the outer logs of a load 



to divert the load toward the middle and so keep any logs from falling off. (N. F.) 



