Choker setter
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
References
- United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook. United States government; Volume 2570.
- ISBN 1559637897.
- ISBN 0738546798.
- ISBN 0762744812.
- Storey Publishing.
- 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.
- 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. ISBN 978-0252068362.
- Vaillant, John (2012). Am Ende der Wildnis: Umweltaktivist oder Ökoterrorist? (in German). Random House.