Timber’s Term of the Week: Bucking

Bucking V The process of cutting a felled tree into logs.

A bucker measures the downed tree while limbing and then cuts the tree into logs for transport. He will try to maximize the log’s net volume since, as a busheler, he’s paid by what the scaler says in it.

References:

University of Missouri Extension, Falling,Bucking and Limbing Trees.