DCHP-3

gyp(p)o logger

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a logger who works on a small scale, often on piecework or on land leased from a big lumber company.

See: gyp(p)o

Quotations

1925
Our foreman was an ex-jippo logger, named D. McDonald, formerly of Glengarry, Ontario. McDonald suffered from all a "jippo's" complexes and inhibitions, including a complete ignorance of the nature and structure of a square meal.
1960
Joe Garner is a gyppo logger who was born in a dirt-floored log cabin. . . .
1964
[The] gypologgers skidded their logs down creeks ripping up spawning beds. . . .