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  1. Cold Trigger Finger

    Cold Trigger Finger

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    Definitions of Southeast Alaska Timber beast dialect.

    Tramp = Verb - to guit, go down the road , usually involves a float plane to get to town.
    Tramp = noun - a logger or Fallers that is a tramp , doesn't stay long in 1 camp.
    Sometimes because the pancakes in ( the Cookhouse = galley and mess deck or kitchen and cafeteria , chow hall ect. ) Weren't round enough ! Could NOT go in the cookhouse with work clothes on ! Or a hat !!
    Cliff, = a shear rock face or bluff.
    Bull Buck = boss of the cutting crew. ( In a perfect world , the most experienced Faller.
    Nice guy, always stuck up for the fallers.
    Sadly , the world ain't perfect !)
    Bushel = 1,000 board feet Scribner scale.
    Small end diameter of the log. With fast tapering red cedar a guy did a lot of cutting for a little scale :#(
    Cull scale = all the stuff a faller has to cut that is not merch timber. Ie , snags, riggin cuts ( made so the riggin crew can get the logs out or get them out easier.)
    Root cuts, school marms = forked tops, break cuts. All these went on cull scale which was the diameter of the cut at a certain length. Example , if the company paid 24 ' for snags and 12 or 16' on root cuts , riggin cuts , break cuts, buck outs and school marms then it was the diameter at those lengths Scribner scale.
    One outfit I cut for paid 40 ' on the snags and 24' on the bucking cuts including root cuts. But, they paid less than half price for cull scale.
    Crew boat= when the crew has to get to work and back to camp via water . Most of the time a crew boat was used. Very common with float camps and when starting a new sale.
    Finger benches. = Usually skinny ledges that timber grew on between the cliff faces . Sometimes a 10' wide finger bench would have stooled up , 8'diameter at the butt of the tree timber on it. So spring boards had to be used. Sometimes it would be 75' or more to whatever was below . Falling off a spring board or having it come out of the tree was Never a good thing !
    Counting limbs = Some places only sold export round logs. There were Many different sorts for different lengths , diameters and grades of logs. One thing that changes the grade is the # of limbs on a log or where the limbs were on the log. So we would have to count limbs to try to get logs in a higher grade.
    We did NOT get paid any more for doing it and it slowed us down and there by cost us money.
    On the Ground and On the Hat = No fooling around to enjoy the view or experience of being a great and mighty slaughterer of an ancient boreal forest. You could do that after work. None of this dinkin around on the stump blipping the throttle when falling . Wide open , dogged in and eating wood . Tearin em off the stump . Flyin down the tree limbing and buckin and measuring and writing the scale on your tin hat then on to the next and the next ect ECT for 6 + hours . As Wide open as your brain and body could go. When everything went right. It would make a guy good money. But it Never made a a guy any nicer or more pleasant to be around. Bushlers tended to be over the top impatient. Mean , cranky , hard to get along with men that were brutally strong and very quick on their feet and usually much quicker tempered. Since Everything they did to make a living was hard to almost impossible. They kinda had to be. They were also total adrenaline junkies.
     
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