- 行业: Forest products; Government
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Picking up trees or parts of trees from the ground or from a vehicle, transporting them, and then piling them into another vehicle.
Industry:Forest products
Rigging suspended from a spar tree guy line immediately above the line of haul and terminating in a loading block.
Industry:Forest products
1. Eight-foot or longer tree segment. 2. Length of tree suitable for processing into lumber, veneer, or other wood products. 3. To harvest trees on an area.
Industry:Forest products
1. Tool used to raise a log from the ground during bucking. 2. Similar to a peavey, but with a flattened steel loop on the underside so when the hook fastens into a log on the ground and the handle is lowered, the log is jacked up and remains elevated on the jack.
Industry:Forest products
Table intended to show amounts of lumber that may be sawed from logs of different sizes under various assumed conditions.
Industry:Forest products
Measure of the volume of wood in a log or logs, usually expressed in board feet and based on various log scaling rules.
Industry:Forest products
A person employed in the production of logs and/or wood from standing timber. Also known as a lumberjack.
Industry:Forest products
As used in the eastern and western regions: layout, on a topographical map, of roads, landings, and setting boundaries of a logging area.
Industry:Forest products
1. Unused portions of pole timber and sawtimber trees killed by land clearing, cultural operations, or timber harvesting. 2. Unused portions of growing stock from trees cut or killed by logging.
Industry:Forest products
