scale

verb, to measure and cut logs in the logging industry; also attributive; see also derivative ‘scaler’ below

“Who were the scalers?”
“I don’t know, but Tom Smith and Len Jones and his brother could scale logs. I heard Dad say that. And they had a scaling stick too, eh for measuring up the logs. And they’d have a stamp to put in the end of the log, either a real heavy axe or something he held with and hit with a sledgehammer, and put a stamp right in the end, and the logs were all cut off a certain length.”