Forestry speak

[Mick Dempsey]

'Top dog' - the meaning and origin of this phrase

 

Moot point it seems.

[Jimbo 76]

Hmmm, certain about that?

I know the phrase "the pits" come from the same work scenario.

 

Mick, not certain but our volenteers who do a lot of work on the local history etc told us.

 

Cheers,

James.

[Gray git]

Wolf tree is also a big rough tree within a plantation that's hardly worth bothering with but has to be taken.

Scarf cut - the gob or directional felling cut.

Snigging, winching out.

Toeing up, cutting the buttresses off before felling

Clicking in, often winching edge trees back into the clearcut.

Blushing off a stump, cutting off a stump to hide a crap fell or poor cuts.

 

 

 

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[Brushcutter]

Dressing out - Snedding/delimbing a tree

Scratch up - raking up/tidying up

Dress the butt - making sure the buttresses are taken off and the butt end nice presented.

Nice lead - Timber all presented in the same direction; nicely.

Racking out - process of putting racks into a block of tress typically every 5th row.

Landing - Areas where timber is stacked or proccessed into stacks.

Deck - the ground can also be a log deck a series of skidded logs all next to eack other.

 

Some Americanisms

Faller -What we would call a cutter or a feller but Americans use the term faller and its sort of caught on here.

Bull Bucker - An experienced man normally running the landing or saw operations.

[skyhuck]

Log jam = when you use the customers toilet and the bugger won't flush away

[miker]

ooh, you bastard, the term used when you shred your hands on a gnarly old winch cable

[PeteB]

Toeing out is an odd thing to me. I was always told​ to get it down then dress it out, whilst others cut the toes off before felling which, in my book is a waste!

[Brushcutter]

Toeing out is an odd thing to me. I was always told​ to get it down then dress it out, whilst others cut the toes off before felling which, in my book is a waste!

 

I must admit on most trees i leave the toes on then dress the butt then dress out out the stem.

 

 

Another one is forester's paint - wiping mud on a stump to hide it back into the landscape.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

ooh, you bastard, the term used when you shred your hands on a gnarly old winch cable

 

Up the (finger) nail bed. "Ah ya f---er"... Rich winch owners who never wear out their compressed cables wouldn't know anything about this.

 

Toeing out is an odd thing to me. I was always told​ to get it down then dress it out, whilst others cut the toes off before felling which, in my book is a waste!

 

Not a waste in front of a harvester. Bumps production, pays for itself.

[PeteB]

"Wrister", "Girter", length of wood used in a twist of chain to pull it tight over a load. Akin to a chain dog or strap ratchet.