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Skipper road. A skid road on which poles arc placed zigzag across the road, 
the angle between skids being about GO degrees; or a road on wliich poles 
are placed transversely at intervals of from 4 to 6 feet. (App.) 
Sky hooker. See Top loader. 
Skyline, n. The cable suspended between the head-spar tree and the tail 
tree in cableway logging, on which the trolley travels. (P. C. F.) 
Syn. : aerial line, main line, standing line, track cable. 
Skyline logging. Logging with a cableway skidder. (P. C. F.) 
Slab tie. The third tie made from a stick of timber too small to make four 
ties and too large to make two ties. (S. F.) 
Slack puller. 1. A power-operated device on an overhead steam skidder 
wliich pulls slack out of the skidding hne when the trolley has been run out 
to the desired point in the run. (Gen.) 
2. One who pulls slack on the skidding line of an overhead steam skidder. 
(S. F.) 
Slack-rope system. A system of power logging in wliich the main skidding 
cable is returned from the machine to the logs by means of a smaller cable 
kno^^^l as the " haul back " or messenger. (Gen.) 
Slack water. 1. In river driving, the temporary slackening of the current 
caused bj' the formation of a jam. (Gen.) 
2. Low water or dead water. (X. W.) 
Slant dam. See Rafter dam. 
Slash, n. 1. The debris left after logging, wind or fire. (Gen.) 
Syn.: slashing. 
2. Forest land which has been logged off and upon which the limbs and 
tops remain, or which is deep in debris as the result of fire or vnnd. (Gen.) 
Slash boards. See Splash boards. 
Slashing, n. See Slash. 
Sled tender. 1 One who assists in loading and unloading logs or skidding 
with a dray. (X. F.) 
Syn.: chainer (L. S.), chain tender, chaser, frogger. 
Sleigh. See Logging sled. 
Slide, n. A trough built of logs or timber, used to transport logs down a 
slope. (Gen.) 
Syn.: chute, dry shde, shp. 
Slide tender. One who keeps a shde in repair. (Gen.) 
Slip, n. See Slide. 
Slip grab. A pear-shaped link attached by a swivel to a skidding evener or 
whiffletree, through which the skidding chain is passed. The chain runs 
freely when the slip grab is held sideways, but catches when the grab is 
straight. (X. F.) 
Syn.: grab hnk. 
Slip man. See Pond man. 
Slipper, n. See Rosser. 
Slip skids. See Ghs.se skids. 
Slip-tongue cart. A special form of logging wheels used for transporting logs. 
(S. F., P. C. F.) See Logging wheels. 
