timber industry
Across
- 3. motorized handheld portable saw that can be corded or battery packed (you probably own one)
- 4. cut to direct where the tree falls
- 7. Cuts the tree into logs of specified lengths, and delimbs trees
- 9. a tool used in logging to help fell trees safely and in a desired direction
- 10. heavy machine, often with a boom and grapple, that sorts and stacks cut logs into piles and then loads them onto trucks for transport
- 11. woody plants of a certain size and quality that are designated for cutting to be used as timber or pulp.
- 15. processed logs off the ground in a bunk for efficient and safer transportation (different than skidder, doesn't drag trees lifts them instead.)
- 16. a machine used to produce straight, squared-up lumber by trimming the irregular, rough edges from boards
- 18. saw a power saw with a toothed, disk-shaped blade that spins at high speed to make cut
Down
- 1. the heating device lumber is put into to be dried
- 2. system of cables, drums, and an engine to move felled trees
- 5. a single, mechanized machine that fells trees and processes them by delimbing and bucking them into specific lengths, all from the operator's cab
- 6. uncut wood holds the tree to the stump during felling and guides its fall,
- 8. woodworking machine used in a mill to smooth and level the surfaces of rough-sawn lumber.
- 10. the final product: wood that has been processed, cut, and milled into usable boards, planks, and other building materials
- 12. a heavy vehicle, typically a four-wheel or tracked tractor, used to pull cut trees (drags)
- 13. a section of a tree trunk,
- 14. an endless saw, consisting of a steel band with a serrated edge running over wheels.
- 17. specialized motor vehicles used to transport logs and other forestry product, logging vehicle