timber cruiser

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"You hear trees falling constantly, but you can't see them through the smoke," says Bill Thompson, 51, a timber cruiser from Salem, Ore. "It gets real spooky out here."

From Time Magazine Archive

A timber cruiser would come into the community, prospecting for a lumber company, and examine the standing timber.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

A timber cruiser in Knott County, Kentucky, once came upon an old woman chopping firewood beside the door of her one-room cabin.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

McGarven, the timber cruiser, who had no idea that there was any man but himself on the lake, watched the bull with growing wonder and distrust, thinking him possessed of some evil demon.

From Wood Folk at School by Long, William Joseph

I am really going to confer with an old timber cruiser about the standing timber contracted for by the Neven Lumber Company before Frank Birdsall died.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks