Title: Explain bucking and limbing techniques to ensure worker safety.
Course: Forestry Management, Advanced (18502-II) > Section: Using Forestry Best Management Practices (BMP) to Harvest Timber Products

Explanation should include

- determining if spotters or observers are needed
- considering obscured vision factors
- considering weather factors
- planning escape routes
- considering roadways, trails, firelines, and overhead power lines
- considering nearby workers
- considering felling, bucking, and limbing hazards
  - considering overhead hazards
  - evaluating guide bar length
  - describing footing
  - describing felling, bucking, and limbing area and escape routes
  - anticipating tree, log, and limb behavior
- planning bucking cut considerations
  - slope
  - tension
  - compression
- locating areas of tension in the log
  - inspecting the log for all binds, pivot points and skids
  - using wedges when bucking
- preventing the chain from contacting the ground.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does a sawyer avoid pinching the bar?
- Why should the chain not meet the ground?

Teacher Resource: Health and Safety Code Handbook, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5423449.pdf)