A historic river-driving technique where workers manually push, prod, or guide floating logs to keep them moving downstream. Log drivers use long poles with spiked tips to prevent jams in shallows, eddies, or narrow bends. While largely replaced by mechanized transport, the term remains part of traditional logging vocabulary for waterborne timber transport.
Heard on the job
Keep the crew spaced out along the bend to handle the ounging before those peelers jam up on the rocks.
Insider tip
This is an older term from the days of river drives, often associated with the dangerous work of preventing a jackpot or massive log jam.