- 行业: Forest products; Government
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Transmissions that can be shifted while transmitting full engine power to the tracks or wheels.
Industry:Forest products
Crane, equipped with a boom and dipper stick on the end, to which a shovel bucket is mounted for moving soil.
Industry:Forest products
Cutting trees from a young stand so that the remaining trees will have more room to grow to marketable size. Trees cut in a precommercial thinning have no commercial value and normally none of the felled trees are removed for utilization. The primary intent is to improve growth potential for the trees left after thinning.
Industry:Forest products
1. Moving pulpwood from stump site to truck loading site by carrying it off the ground. Also known as forwarding. 2. See harvest functions: forwarding.
Industry:Forest products
To circle several logs with binders so the entire unit can be hauled as one log.
Industry:Forest products
To remove small understory trees, windfalls, or special products such as poles or pilings from a stand ahead of the main logging to prevent breakage.
Industry:Forest products
Cutting specified high-value wood products such as poles and pilings before cutting the remainder of the trees.
Industry:Forest products
Deliberate use of fire under conditions where the area to be burned is predetermined and the intensity of the fire is controlled.
Industry:Forest products
Maintenance measures taken in advance to avoid breakdowns.
Industry:Forest products
Road designed and maintained for a high level of use. Typically an all-weather gravel road that is part of a permanent road system.
Industry:Forest products
