Choker setter
Choker setters at work attaching a log to a skyline in Cowlitz County, Washington (October 1941)
A choker setter or choke setter is a logger who attaches cables to logs for retrieval by skidders or skylines.[1][2] The work process involves the choker setter wrapping a special cable end (choker) around a log and then moving clear so the yarding engineer (e.g. skidder operator) can pull the log to a central area.[3][4] In clearcutting, fallers will typically cut down all the trees and limb and buck them into logs before the choke setters and others arrive to remove the logs.[5][6]
Radio controlled
Old chokers were made of metal. New chokers are safer, quicker and thus more productive. They are also radio controlled.
See also
- Donkey puncher
- Steam boiler
- Steam donkey
- Steam engine
- Steam locomotive
- Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
- Steamroller
- Steam tricycle
- Steam turbine
- Timeline of steam power
References
- ↑ United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook. United States government; Volume 2570.
- ↑ McEvoy, Thomas James; James Jeffords (2004). Positive Impact Forestry: A Sustainable Approach To Managing Woodlands. Island Press. p. 165. ISBN 1559637897.
- ↑ Bellamy, Stanley E. (2007). Running Springs. Images in America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 0738546798.
- ↑ Crutchfield, James A. (2007). It Happened in Oregon, 2nd Edition. It Happened In. Morris Book Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 0762744812.
- ↑ Philbrick, Frank; Stephen Philbrick (2006). The Backyard Lumberjack: The Ultimate Guide to Felling, Bucking, Splitting & Stacking. Storey Publishing.
- ↑ Salisbury, Mark (2008). Ilearning: How to Create an Innovative Learning Organization. Wiley; International Society for Performance Improvement. p. 101. ISBN 0470292652.
Further reading
- Cremer, Clyde H.; Jeffrey S. Creme (2008). The Complete Guide to Log Homes: How to Buy, Build, and Maintain Your Dream Home. p. 36.
- Laws, Larry (2011). Back Then: Memoirs of a Country Boy. Xlibris, Corp. p. 125. ISBN 1465357017.
- Miles, DJ (2009). Prindles and Prindels of Clinton and Franklin Counties, NY and Their Allied Families. AuthorHouse. p. 223. ISBN 1449042406.
- Ross, John (2004). Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left. Nation Books. p. 79. ISBN 1560255781.
- Stanley, David; Elaine Thatcher (1999). Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry. University of Illinois Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0252068362.
- Vaillant, John (2012). Am Ende der Wildnis: Umweltaktivist oder Ökoterrorist? (in German). Random House.
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