Timber Harvesting (2/24/21) Flashcards
(34 cards)
What describes all the work necessary to sever a standing tree from its stump?
Felling
Describes the work done to cut a tree into segments and segments are called logs, bolts, or tree length logs, depending on the products being produced.
Bucking
Describes the process of removing all limbs from the main bole it is primarily used in tree length logging.
Delimbing
Really a form of bucking except the only cut being made severs the stem from the merchantable top.
Topping
The final component in a logging system which includes all wood movement from the landing is called _____ transportation.
Secondary
Any movement from the stump to the landing is called ______ transportation.
Primary
An element of skidding it refers to piling or stacking small groups of trees or tree segments in the brush, but not necessarily at the stem.
Bunching
Also called prehauling, it involves the loading of tree segments on their carriage vehicles in the brush and carrying them off of the vehicle to the landing.
Forwarding
In a logging system, _____ is the most essential element in order to maximize the system’s objective.
Planning
A term used to denote the major functions that make up the harvesting system.
Components
A place where logs are accumulated.
Landing
In the south, non-industrial private landowners own approximately ___ percent of the commercial forest land.
73
In the south, the forest products industry owns approximately ___ percent of the commercial forest land.
12
To drag logs or trees on the ground.
Skidding
A person who believes that trees can and should be used wisely.
Conservationist
A tong like device used to pick up logs for skidding and loading logs and wood.
Grapple
Delimbing machine that uses steel chains to remove limbs.
Delimbinator/Flail Delimber
The merchantable bole of the tree from the stump to a 4in. top contains approximately ___% of the tree’s fibers.
65
Refers to actual number of acres of forest that are actually available for timber supply.
Land Base
The U.S. Government’s policy with regard to timber sales can easily result in the life, or death, of timber firms that use _______.
Federal Timber
The average size of saw logs being harvested and delivered to sawmills is doing what?
Getting smaller
While many factors have an impact on logging productivity _____ is the one thing that management can control.
Labor
A decrease in timber supply accompanied by an increase in demand of wood products results in _____ stumpage prices.
Higher
A saw often attached to the loader that is used to cut logs to the desired lengths.
Slasher Saw
