Category:Log Jam
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Log jam (Jam; Plug; Side jam) Logs caught up in an obstruction and piled up during a river drive.
- Wild center Spot where a log would catch on a rock during a river drive, causing a jam.
- Key log (King log) Log that got caught up in a river causing a log jam. It is the one to be moved to break the jam.
- Wing jam Jam formed against an obstacle in a stream, slanted upstream until it touches the shore, but leaving the opposite channel clear for the passage of logs.
- Solid jam Jam extending from bank to bank of a stream.
Jam boom Any boom hastily set up above a log jam preventing more logs adding to the obstruction.
Jam crew Crew who walked down the gig trail alongside the floating logs to keep them from jamming.
- Gig v To walk along the river’s edge.
Jam cracker Riverman expert in breaking log jams.
Shoot a jam Breaking up a log jam with dynamite.
Jam hauled Jam broke!
Snib v To be carried away purposely, apparently by accident, on the first full portion of the jam that moves.
Quick water (Rapids water; White water) Current in a stream making white foam.
White horse Fast rapids or waterfalls.
White water man River driver who was expert in breaking jams on rapids or falls.
Rapids pilot Log drive specialist who guided log and lumber rafts through rapids.
Sack rafts Loose logs floating in a river.
Catch boom Boom across a river to catch logs.
Logan (Poke logan) Bay into which logs may float during a drive.
Shingling logs Sinking one end of a floating log by putting another on top of it. A boom was put around a unit of these logs to transport them.
Travis pole Pole laid crosswise to connect two floating logs. Water-logged logs were wired to this pole to float them to the mill. It was also used to transport deadheads.
Sinkage Loss of logs going downstream through sinking.
- Sinkers Water-logged logs lying in the bottom of rivers or lakes.
- Sinker boat (Catamaran; Monitor; Pontoon) Raft carrying a windlass and grapple, used to recover sunken logs.
Slough pig Second-rate river driver, assigned to picking logs out of sloughs in advance of the rear crew.
Rear crew (Rearing crew; Sacking crew) Crew at the tail end of a log drive who cleaned up the river and brought all hung-up logs into the mainstream.
- Bank beavers Rivermen driving the rear on a log drive.
- Sacking (Pick the rear; Sack the rear; Sacking in; Sacking the rear) Process of rolling logs back into the water that had been washed ashore.
- Sacking boat Boats used by the sacking crew.
Rafted out logs River drive complete, no more logs.
