Log scale – Nullius in Verba

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.” For more information on scaling, seeContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Scaler”

Short Logger

This is logging on Boggs Mountain State Forest around 1975. The forest manager a that time say this is probably called a short log log truck pulling a short log trailer. There were not too many of these around (nowadays log forks are added onto a flatbed trailer). The operator liked it since it gaveContinue reading “Short Logger”

A Regulated Forest – Part 2

Alston Chase’s 1995 book, In A Dark Wood, chronicles the clash over the last century between forest productionists and forest preservationists. He wrote about the strategy of removing decadent timber from timberlands, owned by timber companies or the government (though not from parks), to make way for young trees: [Private companies] sought to convert old,Continue reading “A Regulated Forest – Part 2”