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Hand log, to. To move timber without the aid of animal or mechanical draft. 
(Gen.) 
Hand logger. Formerlj' one who logged without the use of animals or power. 
The term is now sometimes apphed to loggers in the Northwest who use 
animals instead of power skidders. (P. C. F., R. M. F., S. F.). 
Hand pike. A piked lever, usually from 6 to 8 feet long, for handling floating 
logs. (Gen.) 
Syn.: pike lever. (N. W.) 
Hand skid, to. To move timber by hand to a point where it can be reached 
by horse or any other form of transport. (R. M. F.) 
Hand skidder. One who accompanies a log as it is being dragged and places 
short skids beneath it. (P. C. F.) 
Hand sluice, to. To shoot logs down steep slopes on a crude shde made by 
felling timber down the slope, cutting off the tops and arranging the boles 
so that a rough trough results. Snow greatly facilitates hand sluicing. 
(E. C.) 
Hang an ax, to, v. To fit a handle to an ax. (Gen.) 
Hang the boom, to. To put the boom in place. (Gen.) 
Hang up, to. 1. To fell a tree so that it catches ag-iinst another instead of 
falling to the ground. (Gen.) 
Syn.: lodge (Gen.), buckwheat (App.). 
2. In hauling with a team, to get the load stuck either in the mud or 
behind a stump. 
3. As applied to river driving, to discontinue; thus a drive may be 
" hung up " for lack of water or for some other reason. 
Hardwood, a. As apphed to trees and logs, broadleaved, belonging to the 
dicotyledons (Gen.) 
Syn. : broadleaf . 
Hardwood, n. A broadleaved, or dicotyledonous, tree. (Gen.) 
Haul, p. As applied to a skidway of logs that is being broken into, to slip 
or shde. (N. W.) 
Haul, n. In logging, the distance and route over which teams must go 
between two given points, as between the yard or skidway and the land- 
ing. (Gen.) 
Haul back. A small wire rope, traveling between the power skidder and a 
pulley set near the logs to be dragged, used to return the main cable with 
tongs, chokers, or hooks to the next log. (P. C. F., R. M. F., S. F.) 
Haul back. A small wire rope, traveling between the donkey engine and a 
pulley set near the logs to be dragged, used to return the cable. (P. C. F.) 
Syn. : back line, pull back, trip line. 
Haul back block. The block used on the haul back hne. (P. C. F.) 
Haul up. A light chain and hook by which a horse may be hitched to a 
cable in order to move it where desired. (P. C. F.) 
Hay road. See Tote road. 
Hay wire outfit A contemptuous term for poor logging equipment. (N. F.) 
Head block. The log placed under the front end of the skids in a skidway 
to raise them to the desired height. (N. F.) , 
Head bucket. See Saw boss. 
Head chopper. The foreman of a yarding crew. (N. W.) 
