- Industry: Forest products; Government
- Number of terms: 2933
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Cutting bundles or truck loads of tree-length wood or long wood into short lengths.
Industry:Forest products
1. Cross beam on which logs rest in a trailer or a truck. 2. The cross member on a log hauling truck, trailer, or log car on which the log rests. Also known as a bolster.
Industry:Forest products
1. System by which falling and bucking crews are paid by the volume of timber cut, rather than by the hour or other set rate. 2. Method of payment for performing piecework other than volume of timber cut, such as car loading. 3. Cutting wood on a per-cord or per-thousand basis.
Industry:Forest products
1. Heavy hook on the butt rigging to which chokers are attached. Also known as bull hook. 2. Hook that attaches the dragline to the tackle on logs.
Industry:Forest products
1. To cut off a piece of a log because of a defect. 2. To square the end of a log.
Industry:Forest products
1. System of swivels and clevises that connects the haul-back and main lines to which chokers are fastened. 2. Combination of swivels, shackles, chains, and hooks that permits both the hookup between the main and haul-back lines and the attachment of chokers.
Industry:Forest products
Decay or rot characteristically confined to the base or lower bole of a tree.
Industry:Forest products
Ridge of wood that develops in the angle between a lateral root and the butt of a tree, which may extend up the stem to a considerable height.
Industry:Forest products
