DCHP-1 Online
log dog Lumbering 
See 1947 quote.
See also: dog (def. 3)
- 1944 The setter, in a [saw-]mill of this size [moderately large] will ride on the carriage and adjust the setworks after each cut in accordance with the signalled instruction of the sawyer. He may also operate the leading set of log dogs.
- 1947 This moving chain [jackladder] is equipped at intervals with steel grips, called log dogs. . . . The log is caught by the dogs and hauled up into the mill where it waits on the log deck before being placed on the carriage.
- 1944 The setter, in a [saw-]mill of this size [moderately large] will ride on the carriage and adjust the setworks after each cut in accordance with the signalled instruction of the sawyer. He may also operate the leading set of log dogs.