timber cruiser

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The two scouts introduced themselves and then because Paul Nez had started down the wood road they waved farewell to the camper with the injured foot and hustled to catch up to the timber cruiser.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving

So those who live upon the ocean come to possess that which they will not barter for ease, and so the timber cruiser shortens his visit to town.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian