DCHP-3

bushel worker

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in lumber camps, fallers who work under contract; piece workers.

See: faller

Quotations

1942
FALLER. The man who cuts the trees down. Fallers work in sets of two, head and second fallers, with one or more buckers following them. Most fallers are contract or "bushel" workers--paid at a rate of so much per thousand board feet of timber felled.