Timber’s Term of the Week: Scaler

Scaler

n

The one who uses a cheat stick (aka Scale Stick) to decide the board-foot volume within a log. Scalers are the enemy of bushelers.

“The scaler pulled out that stupid cheat stick of his and said the log had only half of what I knew it has.”

log-scale-diagram

Scalers use a scaler's stick to measure one or both ends of the log
Scalers use a scaler

For more information on scaling, see FSH 2409.11, the National Forest Log Scaling Handbook

Published by Norm Benson

My name is Norm Benson and my Lowdermilk manuscript is out for beta review. This is the story of Walter and Inez Lowdermilk, an American couple who came to see soil erosion as a threat to civilization. Their pursuit of land conservation carried them from China and the Dust Bowl to Palestine, where their ideas about reclaiming the land helped build the case for the creation of Israel.

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