- Industry: Forest products; Government
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Steel frame located either midway on the bed of a bobtail pulpwood truck or directly behind the cab. Short, rotatable horizontal boom attached to a center post mounted on a pulpwood truck.
Industry:Forest products
Graduated stick used to estimate tree diameters when held at right angles to the axis of the stem and comparing the graduations cut by lines of sight tangential to either edge of the stem.
Industry:Forest products
To get a saw stuck when felling or bucking a tree and the sides of the cut pinch in; wedges are used to alleviate the situation. To get a long log stuck in the sharp curve of a flume.
Industry:Forest products
Chain or wire rope used to bind logs. Also known as chain hook. Chain or cable used to secure logs on a truck.
Industry:Forest products
Total woody material in a forest. Refers to both merchantable material and material left following a conventional logging operation. In the broad sense, all of the organic material on a given area; in the narrow sense, burnable vegetation to be used for fuel in a combustion system.
Industry:Forest products
Harvesting of all material including limbs, tops, and unmerchantable stem and stumps, usually for energy wood.
Industry:Forest products
To permanently mark trees, indicating those to be cut or the course of a boundary, road, or trail.
Industry:Forest products
Short piece of pulpwood. Any short log, as a pulpwood bolt or pulpwood stick. -Any short stick, generally between 2 and 8 feet long.
Industry:Forest products
Felling pattern started along the timber's front face next to the roadside. A felling machine works back and forth along the face. When sufficient timber has been felled to allow skidding, the cutting machine begins a second pass along another side of the block.
Industry:Forest products
