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Harvesting Systems
Harvesting Equipment
F. Engineering Terms
Planning Process
Road terms
100
The steps in this process include falling, bucking/processing, yarding/skidding, loading and hauling
What are the harvesting phases
100
A machine that pulls in logs
What is a yarder
100
The areas to which logs are yarded or skidded to be loaded out
What is a Landing
100
This document spells out plans for the entire site including harvesting, planting and silviculture treatment till “Free to Grow”
What is a Site Plan or Logging Plan
100
The slope of a road.
What is the grade
200
A yarding system employing winches, blocks and cables.
What is cable logging
200
Mobile equipment designed to hold, cut, and then pile the trees for yarding or skidding
What is a Feller-Buncher
200
To cut branches off trees or logs.
What is to Limb
200
Getting Local First Nations Involvement is this type of consideration when doing Forest Planning
What is Social Consideration
200
When building a road, you can use this acronym to help you remember important information to consider.
What is WAR and Peace
300
Yarding refers to cable systems, this term refers to ground based systems
What is skidding
300
A wheeled or tracked vehicle used for sliding and dragging logs from the stump to a landing.
What is a skidder
300
The process of cutting down standing timber and then cutting it into specific lengths for yarding and hauling.
What is Felling and Bucking
300
Wildlife Act, Water Act, Species at Risk Act, Fisheries Act, etc
What are Acts related to Forest Planning
300
The uphill travel or grade on a road
What is adverse grade
400
Lines, blocks, chokers, and all gear used in cable logging systems.
What is Rigging
400
This machine delimbs a log and cuts it into specific lengths
What is a processor
400
A worker who unhooks chokers at the landing. Also called the "landing worker"
What is a Chaser
400
From start to finish, a FSP takes about this long to develop
What is 6-12 months
400
The path or trail a skidder or crawler tractor uses to move logs on
What is a Skid road
500
This system uses equipment like skidders, hoe chuckers, and forwarders.
What is ground based
500
A skidder fitted with a grapple rather than chokers to hold and handle logs
What is a Grapple Skidder
500
A small-diameter wire rope used in rigging up or moving larger lines or blocks. Sometimes called a "haywire."
What is a strawline
500
Mapping, Timber Assessment, Forest Stewardship Plan, Road and Cutting Permit Acquisition
What are the four basic components to the Planning Process?
500
An agreement entered into under the Forest Act that allows a person who has the right to harvest timber under a licence, agreement, or permit, to construct a road, or maintain an existing road on Crown land, other than a Forest Service road
What is a Road Permit