logmaker

English

Etymology

log +‎ maker

Noun

logmaker (plural logmakers)

1. A device that creates 'logs' out of burnable waste; the device encases the burnable waste within a newspaper wrapping by the use of a special tube and plunger.
   • 1983, Clean Air - Volume 13, Issues 1-4, page 108:

     The Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the complaint was justified, noting that under the Act, authorisation for fuels produced by the "logmaker" would be unlikely since manufacture could not be controlled to a sufficient degree to ensure uniform quality of any fuel produced.

   • 2011, Natalia Marshall, Save the planet: 52 brilliant ideas for rescuing our world, →ISBN, page 93:

     You need to soak the paper in water, squash it into the logmaker and squeeze down the handles.

   • 2012, Colin Smith, This Cold House: The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency, →ISBN:

     In fact nowadays, you can buy hand-cranked log-makers that will compact your newspapers, which are also cellulose, into handy burnable briquettes -- useful if you are miles from recycling facilities.

   • 2014 May 1, John, “Paper Log Maker”, in lowery278trouperide (Usenet):

     y'know those paper logmakers where you soak some newspaper and then put it in a metal box and pull the handles to compress it? I have tried to this.

2. (UK) One who cuts trees at a tree farm and prepares logs for further processing; lumberman.
   • 1922, Canada Lumberman and Woodworker - Volume 42, page 50:

     So, on the alert for any sound which might enable him to locate logmaker or roadcutter who would put him on the track of Angus, he tramped along and it was not long before his attention was rewarded.

   • 1993, John Galbraith, Managing New Zealand's Forests for Future Markets:

     Log making exhibited a workload which could be classified as moderate to heavy because the logmaker used a chainsaw on the landing.

   • 1997, Woodlot Logging:

     A poor logmaker who managed to achieve 70% of the optimum would be loosing $60 per tree which is $30 per tonne or $18,000 per hectare.