Logging vocabulary

[Gologit]

Maybe somebody will be interested in this. Some of the terms change with the area they're used in, some are antiquated and not often heard these days. It gives a glimpse into the specialized language of Left Coast logging. Enjoy.

http://www.puresimplicity.net/~heviarti/Logging_Terms.html

 

[RandyMac]

I was going to say something about antiquated, but I'm not that far behind you.

Those really old landingmen have all the terms down, that's where I heard most of the color in our language.

 

[GLOBOTREE]

thoughtful post!

 

[Gologit]

I was going to say something about antiquated, but I'm not that far behind you.

Those really old landingmen have all the terms down, that's where I heard most of the color in our language.

Hey you! You're still ten years behind me...you're just a pup, ya know. And you're right about the language. If the average non-logger person was to overhear a bunch of loggers planning out a setting or a strip they'd think they were hearing some kind of foreign language. And, with all the accents I remember from when I started in the woods, they might have been almost right. Within the first year of working in the woods I could cuss in four different Scandinavian languages. Also Italian and Portuguese.

Ever notice you don't hear the "country or origin" accents in the woods anymore? Except for the south of the border exchange students, that is.

 

[RandyMac]

I have dealt with Portuguese, they were from Ferndale. Dairyman's sons that didn't like cows. I wonder if Larry Barotti hit 300 pounds yet.

 

[John Ellison]

really[/B] old landingmen have all the terms down, that's where I heard most of the color in our language.

Haha, Color is right. There is probably an x rated vocab. somewhere.

 

[RandyMac]

While liberally salted with regular profanities, logging talk has lots of descriptive phrases. Malingering machines catch the brunt of such sayings. One machine that seemed to be everyone's favorite, was an old NorthWest loader. In it's favor, when it ran, no man could yell loud enough to be heard.

 

[madhatte]

what?!?

 

[Gologit]

Haha, Color is right. There is probably an x rated vocab. somewhere.

There probably is but we'd all get banned if we used even a little bit of it.

We had a Christian on the crew one time. He was a good guy, hard worker, knew his stuff...but he didn't cuss. Ever. He didn't say anything if we used foul language he just didn't do it himself. He had a tree set back on him one day and he wedged and he wedged and he wedged...and he wedged some more until was red in the face and just worn out. I walked down to help him him and he said..."I don't think I can keep working in the woods...another couple of trees like this and I might just have to learn to cuss to keep my head from blowing off".

 

[RandyMac]

And there is the other end of the spectrum, where someone has a running patter of nothing but color.

 

[Gologit]

And there is the other end of the spectrum, where someone has a running patter of nothing but color.

...usually used while having a riggin fit. As in "I couldn't get the ##$@^%$$#$ to run but I left cuss marks all over it".

 

[slowp]

I'd add 99 to it.

99 was what you wrote on a timber cruise card when the tree was a cull.
It is also used as, "He is a 99."

 

[madhatte]

Heh. In the FSCruiser software we use, "9" is the grade code for cull.

Also, I notice I didn't see "Swarp" in that vocabulary list...

 

[slowp]

Nor is bullpr--- mentioned. It is what the stop for a Christy carriage is called.

 

[slangegger]

Nor is bullpr--- mentioned. It is what the stop for a Christy carriage is called.

How would you pronounce that?

Bull-pur?

 

[Gologit]

How would you pronounce that?

Bull-pur?

Bull prick. Slowp was trying not to use any bad words.

 

[hammerlogging]

Red used to tell me its not until you have 3 ####s in a sentence that you're really ####ed.

I know when I throw a chain, "mother####er" is the usual. Red'd here "mother####er" and would radio over "did ya throw yer chain?"Although I did surprise myself the other day with a "god damn mother####in ##### ass whore ####" I embarrassed myself with that one, I can really crack myself up out there cutting alone (but not tooo far from the loggers....)
It really is therapuetic, I generally laugh at myself at each outburst, roll my chain back on and carry on better than ever. Now, if I throw a chain say more than 2 times in an hour, watch out.

You just have to be careful of the company you're with when the conversation gets to logging cause man, loggin and cussin just seem to go together

 

[forestryworks]

Red used to tell me its not until you have 3 ####s in a sentence that you're really ####ed.

I know when I throw a chain, "mother####er" is the usual. Red'd here "mother####er" and would radio over "did ya throw yer chain?"Although I did surprise myself the other day with a "god damn mother####in ##### ass whore ####" I embarrassed myself with that one, I can really crack myself up out there cutting alone (but not tooo far from the loggers....)
It really is therapuetic, I generally laugh at myself at each outburst, roll my chain back on and carry on better than ever. Now, if I throw a chain say more than 2 times in an hour, watch out.

You just have to be careful of the company you're with when the conversation gets to logging cause man, loggin and cussin just seem to go together

I don't know if I want to work with you now, I'd be laughing to hard hearing some man in the next strip over rant and rave :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[slowp]

For some reason, succubus is a good thing to shout. It has the right ring to it and they used it on South Park so it must be OK? Right?

 

[paccity]

For some reason, succubus is a good thing to shout. It has the right ring to it and they used it on South Park so it must be OK? Right?

ha!