Timber’s Term of the Week: Bucking

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1. 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.
• Alabama Cooperative Extension, Safe Operation of Chainsaws
• About.com: Forestry, Definition: Bucking
• USDA Forest Service, Bucking logs to cable yarder capacity can decrease yarding costs and minimize wood wastage
  

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