Brag Loads: exceedingly large loads of logs with which different lumber camps would compete against each other, betting who could get the most logs on one load.

Bucking: cutting the logs into specific lengths.

Calked Boots:spiked boots used by the river hogs to keep their grip while riding logs.

Choppers: the men who cut the tree and figured out exactly where it would fall. After the tree was felled, the chopper would cut off the top of the tree and the limbs.

Crazy Wheel: a breaking system of eight wheels around which a cable was entwined. This was used to slow sleighs down when they were going down steep hills.

Cruise: an estimate of the amount of lumber in a timber stand, or group of trees.

Corduroy Log Road: a road made out of logs.

Decking:constructing a skidway - boards were placed against piles of logs so that the logs could roll down, making transportation of logs easier.

Diner Triangle: an instrument often used by lumber camp cooks to signal the men that it was suppertime.

(The) Dump: The place where the logs were kept until the river drives began.

Forestry: the science of taking care of our forests so that they will be around for future generations.

Jammer: a machine used for loading logs onto sleighs. Horses would pull on ropes hooked over pulleys, using the horses' strength to hoist the logs.

Peavey: a long pole with a hook on the side and a spike on the end, used for breaking up logjams.

Pieceworker: men would take their buck saws and go into the bush alone to cut. Their pay was determined by the amount of logs they managed to cut.

Pointers: small boats used to tow sawlogs and pulpwood.

River Hogs: men who would ride logs down the river, preventing and/or breaking up log jams.

Sawyers: men who felled the trees.

Scaling: measuring to see how much good lumber there is in each log.

Scoring: getting the logs ready for the hewer.

Slasher: a machine which would cut the trees down and then, with its grappling arm, load the logs.

Sorting Jack: sidewalk-like pieces of wood which were attached to pilings on the banks of the river. Representatives of each logging firm using that river for drives would stand on these. When logs with their company's mark would come along, the men would make sure that the logs were directed to the correct receiving gap.

Swampers: men who cleared trails for the skidders.

Tanking: icing the roads for easier transportation of sleighs. Horses would pull large tanks full of water behind them - the water would pour onto the road and freeze.

Wheeled Skidder: a combination bulldozer and small crane.