West Coast Terms

[Grendel]

The base of a tree being "goosed out".

Thanks for the heads up on the book Stig. I've ordered it. Looks really cool.

Cheers.

 

[cory]

The boss of a yarding crew

Damn ya beat me to it.

 

[Burnham]

The base of a tree being "goosed out".

Thanks for the heads up on the book Stig. I've ordered it. Looks really cool.

Cheers.

Reference is derived from the term "goose pen tree"...a large hollowed out base, often by fire, with an open catface, which could be enclosed with fencing to create a pen to keep livestock in...often enough it was geese, I suppose...but in the redwood country particularly, even a cow or two.

So today a "goosed out" base is one with a lot of hollow and an opening or two.

 

[gf beranek]

Through it all Goose Pen stuck.

 

[flushcut]

Damn ya beat me to it.

I'm sneaky that way lol.

 

[Grendel]

I bet the phrase "Make it or break it" originally snuck into the language from the woods

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Through it all Goose Pen stuck.

With a half life.

 

[Burnham]

Us tough as gristle old farts tend to hang on long enough generation to generation to make it so .

 

[FireFighterZero]

Always listen to an old fart.

 

[sotc]

But try not to smell them

 

[CurSedVoyce]