- Industry: Forest products; Government
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Snag; standing dead tree or log whose bark has fallen partially or completely away and whose exposed wood has a bleached.
Industry:Forest products
1. Strip of uncut timber left between cutting units or adjacent to another resource. Also known as a green strip, leave strip, or streamside management zone. 2. Strip of land varying in size and shape, preserving or enhancing aesthetic values around recreation sites and along roads, trails, or water.
Industry:Forest products
Measure of weight per unit of volume of a material; generally serves as an indicator of the specific gravity of wood.
Industry:Forest products
1. Main line block in high-lead logging. 2. Large yarding block having a throat opening of sufficient size to allow the butt rigging to pass through.
Industry:Forest products
1. Steel bar for punching holes under stumps for placement of dynamite or powder. 2. Tool used in splicing wire rope.
Industry:Forest products
Steel blade mounted across the front of a standard crawler tractor that can be raised and lowered but cannot be angled to one side or the other; therefore all pushing is straight forward.
Industry:Forest products
Small truck or dolly, with two small wheels and a short pole, used in skidding logs. Also known as a dolly.
Industry:Forest products
1. To gather trees or logs into small piles for subsequent skidding by other equipment. 2. To assemble logs together to form a load for transport.
Industry:Forest products
