- Отрасли: Forest products; Government
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Silvicultural system in which the individual trees originate at about the same time and are removed in one or more harvest cuts, after which a new stand is established.
Industry:Forest products
Same amount of timber produced annually for an indefinite, extended period of time from a natural forest or other unit of land.
Industry:Forest products
1. Area of ground laid out to determine the effects of a certain method of treatment. 2. Major area-unit of an established experimental study requiring recurrent examination, often divided into subplots.
Industry:Forest products
Slope distance from the landing to the farthest point within the cutting unit boundary.
Industry:Forest products
Loop formed by bending a rope's end back and splicing it into the line.
Industry:Forest products
1. Side of a hill or mountain being logged. 2. One side of a tree, log, or cant. 3. Standing timber adjacent to a clear-cut area. 4. Section of wood sawn and removed from a tree's base.
Industry:Forest products
Sometimes used in measuring firewood, a face cord is 4 feet high by 8 feet long but only as deep as the length of the individual firewood pieces. Thus a face cord may be 4 feet by 8 feet by 16 inches and contain one-third the wood volume of a pulpwood or standard cord.
Industry:Forest products
Device containing pulley wheels or rollers used so that the winch can pull in the cable from any direction without damage.
Industry:Forest products
Block which, in tight-skyline systems, can be lowered to pick up loads on the ground and then raised as required for hauling them onto the landing. The block is long and narrow, with the pulley wheel(s) at the top, and balanced so that most of the weight is at the bottom.
Industry:Forest products
