Glossary
Logging Equipment Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential logging equipment operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key logging equipment operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in logging equipment operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Best management practices
- Practices that protect soil and water.
- Bucking
- Cutting logs to length.
- Clearcut
- Harvesting all trees in an area.
- Delimbing
- Removing branches.
- Feller buncher
- A machine that cuts and gathers trees.
- Forwarder
- A machine that carries logs.
- Harvester
- A machine that fells and processes trees.
- Landing
- Where logs are processed and loaded.
- Load
- A truckload of logs.
- Rutting
- Ruts from heavy equipment.
- Selective cut
- Harvesting chosen trees.
- Skid trail
- A path for moving logs.
- Skidder
- A machine that drags logs.
- Streamside management zone
- A protected area near water.
- Timber cruise
- Estimating timber volume.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Logging Equipment Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Logging Equipment Operator training.
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