46 TEEMS USED IX FOEESTKY AXD LOGGIXG. 



Sawyer, n. See Faller. 



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



(Gen.) 

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

 Scalper, u. See Rosser. 

 Scoot, n. See Dray. 

 Season check. See Check. 



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

 Syn. : helper. (X. F.) 



Self-loading- dam. .SVe Rafter dam. 



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



(Gen.) 

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

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



horsepower. (Gen.) 

 Setting-, n. 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. 

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



(X. F.) 

 Syn. : fender boom, glancing boom. 

 Shear 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. (X. W., L. S. ) 

 Short road. See Go-back road. 



Shot lioles. 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. (X. F.) 

 Side mark. See Bark mark. 

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



(Gen.) 

 Sig-nal man. One who transmits orders from the foreman of a yarding crew to the 



engineer of the yarding donkey. (P. C. F. "i 

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



float road. (S. F. ) 

 Sinker, n. See Deadhead. 

 Sinker boat. See Catamaran. 



Skid, V. 1. To draw logs from the stump to the skidway, landing, or mill. (Gen.) 

 Syn. : snake, twitch. 



2. As applied to a road, to reenforce by placing logs or poles across it. (Gen. ) 

 Skid, n. A log or pole, commonly used in pairs, upon which logs are handled or 



piled (Gen.); or the log or pole laid transversely in a skid road (P. C. F.). 



