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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