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From: "Roland Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:52:13 -0700

4 cord winters
----- Original Message -----
From: "James and Sue Stone" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 19 26 PM
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"


geez...what a thread i started!
'buck' means to cut logs cross grain. In 'the woods' it means
cutting them from whole tree length into 'log' length. Logs are
a standard length, probably determined at the sale. I don't know
how much each are used, or which is the most common, but they are
8, 16, and 32 feet long.

Firewood is measured in cords. A cord is a neatly stacked
woodpile which is four-feet high, four-feet wide, and eight-feet
long. Or four, by two, by 16 feet. With tongue firmly in cheek,
the 'cord' unit of measure said to be one tenth the amount
necessary to last a Montana winter. (The weather in Wisdom,
Montana is best described as 10 months of winter and two months
of 'tough sledding.')

"Haul" referrs to how one gets the wood from where it is growing,
to where the stove is.


Roland Elliott wrote:
>
> "buck' cut in sections,"Haul"
> means haul,Santa is north of Yo Semite R
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 22 56 PM
> Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
>
> Alexandra et al,
>
> Roland:
>
> What is the "buck, haul" bit please?
> Have you got Santa's Rudolf?<g>
>
> Yours,
> Mikey.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Elliott <>
> To: <>
> Date: 04 July 2000 03:17
> Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
>
> I fall,limb,buck,haul and split about 10 cords a year.R
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James and Sue Stone" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 19 04 PM
> Subject: [OLDWORDS] "Faller"
>
> Around the dinner table tonight, the subject of cutting down
> trees came up. My son was asking how wildland firefighters cut
> big trees down, particularly when they are on fire. I explained
> that the firefighters request a 'faller' when the tree is beyond
> their skill-range to cut down. I have seen 'fallers' (usually
> individuals who work for a logging company) on wildland fires
> with their BIG chainsaws...with five foot bars on their power
> saws. (More jargon...the 'bar' is that flat blade-like portion
> of the chainsaw upon which the chain runs round and round).
>
> In the northwest, and probably other parts of the country where
> logging has been a major occupation, those who cut down trees are
> called 'fallers.' Because lots of people have different kinds of
> jobs in a logging operation, calling someone a 'logger' is not
> very specific in explaining what they do.
>
> James and Sue
> in Idaho
>
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