- Industry: Forest products; Government
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Condition in which a log is attached to a skidding unit by means of a wire rope or chain choker.
Industry:Forest products
Short length of flexible wire, rope, or chain used to 1. Attach logs to a winch line or directly to a tractor. 2. Noose of wire rope for hauling a log. 3. Short length of wire rope that forms a noose around the end of a log to be skidded and is attached to the skidding vehicle or to the butt rigging in a wire rope logging system.
Industry:Forest products
1. Person in a logging operation who places the choker around the log to be hauled to the landing. 2. Beginning job for novice loggers. 3. One who attaches chokers to logs in the woods for the skidding unit.
Industry:Forest products
Straight line that joins the end points of any arc. In cable yarding, it is used to determine cable deflection.
Industry:Forest products
Payload bed of a forwarder, equipped with top-opening hydraulic jaws.
Industry:Forest products
Uses an integrally mounted loader to assemble the load and a clam or top-opening jaws to hold it. Grapple skidder-Uses a grapple or bottom-opening jaws to assemble and hold a load.
Industry:Forest products
