Logging Terms - F -
F.O.P.S.: Falling object
protective structure.
FACE: Edge of area formed along standing timber as
timber is felled.
FACE: A section of wood sawn and removed from a tree's
base. Its removal allows the tree to fall and assists in direction where it will
fall. The face is comprised of two separate cuts which have constant
relationships; the horizontal cut must be at least 1/3 the diameter of the tree,
the sloping cut must be angled enough to allow a wide opening and the two cuts
must not cross each other.
FACE-BORING BACKCUT: Special
alteration of standard backcutting procedure used to handle particular trees
such as those which are large or leaning heavily. Face-boring reduces the amount
of wood remaining to be cut prior to the final backcutting.
FAIR LEAD: Sheaves, rolls, or a combination thereof
arranged to receive a line coming from any direction for proper lone spooling on
to a drum.
FALLER: Timber faller-bucker (coastal) or tree faller
(interior).
FALLER: Specialist who falls and bucks trees in a safe
manner while utilizing as much of the tree as possible. In some areas the faller
only cuts the trees down and a bucker saws them into logs.
FELL (Fall): To cut down trees.
FELLER (Faller): An employee who fells trees.
FRONT END LOADER: A mobile machine mounted on a
wheeled or tracked chassis, equipped with a grapple, tuck, bucket, or fork-lift
device, and employed in the loading, unloading, stacking, or sorting of logs or
materials.
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