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1 hook tender. 
1 swamper. 
1 sniper. 
2 rigging slingers. 
2 choker men. 
1 chaser. 
1 signal man. 
1 engineer. 
1 fireman. 
1 wood buck. 
In some cases only one rigging slinger is used. Where the haul is 
long and the ground particularly rough, an additional choker man 
may be necessary. Sometimes two w r ood bucks are required. If oil 
Fig. 29. — Combination road and yarding engine. 
is used as a fuel, a wood buck and, in some cases, a fireman are not 
needed. 
The division of labor in a yarding crew is not always clear. The 
different members of the crew do what the situation demands. The 
hook tender is in charge of the crew, and the amount of work done 
depends largely on his ability. He plans the work, locates the roads, 
instructs the crew as to the character of the timber that should be 
hauled, designates the order in which the logs are to be taken, and 
