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Timber’s Term of the Week: Timber Beast

Timber Beast n Forest Service personnel (or any establishment types) who invariably side with timber industry. Someone obsessed with denuding woodland of all marketable timber. A logger. A lumberjack. The title of a book by Archie Binns, copyright 1944. Like most definitions, the meaning of Timber Beast has morphed over the years. The first definitionContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Timber Beast”

Timber’s Term of the Week: Scaler

Scaler n The one who uses a cheat stick (aka Scale Stick) to decide the board-foot volume within a log. Scalers are the enemy of bushelers. “The scaler pulled out that stupid cheat stick of his and said the log had only half of what I knew it has.” For more information on scaling, seeContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Scaler”

Timber’s Term of the Week: Busheler

Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Busheler”

Timber's Term of the Week: Busheler

Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber's Term of the Week: Busheler”

Timber’s Term of the Week: Section 37

Section 37 n Where all good bushelers go when they go beyond the vale.  A logger’s paradise where every tree is straight, tall, without flaws, and eight feet in diameter. And no underbrush, scalers, or inkslingers can be found: John’s gone to Section 37 and won’t be coming back. A mythical place. Something not supposedContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Section 37”

Timber's Term of the Week: Section 37

Section 37 n Where all good bushelers go when they go beyond the vale.  A logger’s paradise where every tree is straight, tall, without flaws, and eight feet in diameter. And no underbrush, scalers, or inkslingers can be found: John’s gone to Section 37 and won’t be coming back. A mythical place. Something not supposedContinue reading “Timber's Term of the Week: Section 37”

Timber’s Term of the Week: Skid Road

How did skid road morph into skid row? Webster’s Online Dictionary defines a “skid road” as: A road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines a “skid road” as: A road along which logs are skidded. The California Board of Forestry defines skid roads (or tractor roads)Continue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Skid Road”

Timber's Term of the Week: Skid Road

How did skid road morph into skid row? Webster’s Online Dictionary defines a “skid road” as: A road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines a “skid road” as: A road along which logs are skidded. The California Board of Forestry defines skid roads (or tractor roads)Continue reading “Timber's Term of the Week: Skid Road”