Word: bucker
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...industry. The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...diameter. But with the power saw (which weighs about 130 Ib.) it is easier to cut at the base than higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber cutters needed for mechanized logging are toppers (who knock the tops off the trees) and limbers (who slash the limbs away...
...progress. Though the British knew he would be there, no bombs fell on Berlin that day. The Führer was in good form. He spoke seriously, with less virulence than usual, and his tone was one of confidence. For the German people his speech was a good bucker-up, if they needed one; for foreigners it was good propaganda...
Peter Elser seems to have an inside track in the left tackle fight with Vern Miller, and Don Forte rates the call over John Morgan at right end. Neither Don McNicol nor Captain Joe Gardella scrimmaged yesterday, but both are certain starters at tailback and bucker respectively...
...Baker's running mate Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour