A Lesson In Logger Grammar

Day 27: Seen at two ends of a little road which is less than a quarter mile long, these signs bring up a question of grammar: if you are a woodsman who uses an axe or saw to take down timber, are you a faller or a feller? It turns out the answer is not as clear-cut (~cough!~ forgive me, it slipped out) as you might think.

A feller (fellow) who fells or falls trees is either a faller or a feller, depending on the custom of his particular area. In this case, the jury seems to have stilll been out on the subject, but as I was taking the photo, I definitely heard the sound of timber falling...CRASH!...and it was preceded by the sound made by someone using a chainsaw to fell a tree...WHRRRRRRRRRRRR! The felling preceded the falling, at least in one interpretation. Grammatically, I don't think it would have worked quite as well the other way around.

So now the question remains: does the feller who falls trees fill trucks any fuller than the faller who fells trees fills them? Sigh. It's all so confusing, I simply can't foller it at all.