516 APPENDIX 
Water ladder. Pole guides up and down which a barrel slides in filling a 
sprinkler by horse power. (N. W., L. S.) 
Water slide. See Flume. 
Water stain. Streaks or patches of red or brown discoloration in firm wood 
of hemlock. 
Water streak. A dark streak in oak lumber due to injury to the standing 
timber. (App.) 
Weaver's bind. A method of binding chains around logs on a dray. (N. W.) 
Wedge a tree, to. To topple over with wedges a tree that is being felled. 
(Gen.) 
Syn.: throw, trip. 
Well, n. A hole dug in the snow surrounding a tree in order that the chopper 
may cut the tree at the required height. (R. M. F.) 
Wet slide. See Flume. 
Wheel camp. 1. An operation in which the logs are transported to the skid- 
ways on logging wheels. (Cal.) 
2. A camp, the quarters of which are mounted on railroad trucks. 
(P. C. F.) 
Wheelers, n. In a team, the pair next to the load. (App., E. C, S. F.). 
See Snub yoke. 
Syn.: butt team. 
Whiffletree neckyoke. A heavy logging neckyoke, to the ends of which 
short whiffletrees are attached by rings. From the ends of the whiffletrees 
wide straps run to the breeching, thus giving the team added power in 
holding back loads on steep slopes. (N. F.) 
Whip-poor-will, n. A small log fastened diagonally across a log slide and 
used to shunt logs onto a dump. (App.) 
Syn.: jumper. 
Whistle boy. One who transmits orders from the foreman of a slddding crew 
to the engineer of a pullboat. (S. F.) 
Whistle punk. See Signal man. 
White water. See Quick water. 
White water man. A log driver who is expert in breaking jams on rapids or 
falls. (N. F.) 
Widow maker. 1. A broken limb hanging loose in the top of a tree, which 
in its fall may injure a man below (N. F.); or a breaking cable (P. C. F.). 
Syn.: deadman. (N. W.) 
2. A tree which in falling is lodged in the top of another. (App.) 
Wigwam, to make a. In felling trees, to lodge several in such a way that 
they support each other. (N. F.) 
Windfall, n. An area upon which the trees have been thrown by wind; 
also, a single tree thrown by wind. (Gen.) 
Syn.: blow do^vn, wind slash. 
Windshake, n. See Shake. 
Wind slash. See Windfall. 
Wind splitter. See Peaker. 
Wing dam. See Pier dam. 
Wing jam. A jam which is formed against an obstacle in the stream and 
