TERMS USED IN LOGGING 509 
Standing line. See Skyline. 
Start, n. A pin or pins fastened to the runners of a dray and holding in place 
the upper removable bar or bunk. (N. W.) 
Starting bar. See C!ee throw. 
Stay boom. A boom fastened to a main boom and attached upstream to 
the shore to give added strength to the main boom. (Gen.) 
Steam bucking saw. A portable steam-driven saw used for bucking logs at 
the landing. (Cal.) 
Syn. : drag saw. 
Steam dago. A power-driven log bucking device. (P. C. F.) 
Steam hauler. A geared steam tractor used to haul loaded logging sleds over 
an iced road. It is equipped with a spiked metal belt which runs over 
sprocket wheels replacing the driving wheels, and is guided by a sled, turned 
by a steering wheel, upon which the front end rests. (N. F.) 
Steam jammer. See Steam loader. 
Steam loader. A machine operated by steam and used for loading logs upon 
cars. (Gen.) 
Syn.: loader, steam jammer. 
Steam skidder. See Skidder. 
Steel crew. The crew which lays and takes up railroad track. (Gen.) 
Stem winder. See Corkscrew. 
Still water. That part of a stream having such slight fall that no current 
is apparent. Ant.: quickwater. (Gen.) 
Sj'n. : deadwater. 
Stock, n. The handle of a cant hook or peavey. (App.) 
Stock logs, to. To deliver logs from stump to mill or railroad. (S. F.) 
Stog, V. See Chink. 
Storage boom. A strong boom used to hold logs in storage at a sawmill. 
(Gen.) 
Syn. : holding boom, receiving boom. 
Stow logs, to. In rafting, to place logs together and parallel within boom 
sticks which mark the outside of the raft section. (P. C. F.) 
Straight line. The direct attachment of a pulHng cable from a donkej'^ engine 
to a log without the use of block and tackle. (P. C. F.) 
Straw boss, n. A subforeman in a logging camp. (N. W., L. S.) 
Syn.: head push. 
Stray. 1. A marked log passing through the sorting gap of a boom company 
and about the disposition of which there have been no instructions given. 
(L. S.) 
2. A log which has passed the mill where it should have been taken from 
the water. (N. F., E. C.) 
3. See Prize log. 
Straw line. In power skidding, a small cable which is used in changing the 
skidding lines from one run to another. (P. C. F.) 
Syn. : grass line. 
Stream jam. See Center jam. 
Stretcher. See Spreader. 
Stringer road. 1. See Fore-and-aft road. 
