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Logging

There is no logging industry on the Island, but several interviewees shared stories of working as loggers out west.

bead setter

buck off

bunkhouse

butt rigging

corked boot

gin pole

logging camp

lumber camp

powder monkey

scale 

scoring axe

by whistle

whistlepunk

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