FORESTRY EQUIPMENT ID

TREE STICK

• Dibble is used in planting seedlings.

• Type of instrument used to measure tree height indirectly – ABNEY LEVEL

DIAMETER TAPE

• Most accurate way to measure the diameter of a standing tree – DIAMETER TAPE.

• A worker handling pulpwood is most likely to use a HOOKEROON.

INCREMENT BORER

• A forester can determine the age of a tree without felling it by using an INCREMENT BORER.

BARK GAUGE

TREE CALIPER

Pulaski Forester Axe

• A Pulaski is used in firefighting for GRUBBING AND CHOPPING.

STEREOSCOPE

• A stereoscope is used for READGIN AERIAL MAPS.

• A forester would use a soil test kit to measure SOIL PH.

GPS RECEIVER

SOIL SAMPLER(S)

WHEELER CALIPER

• WHEELER CALIPER used prisms.

• KERF refers to WIDTH OF A CUT MADE BY A SAW

• When underbucking the chainsaw will PUSH TOWARDS THE OPERATOR.

WEDGE PRISM

• Used to measure the BASAL AREEA of trees in a stand.

RELASKOP

• A Jacob Staff is used with a RELASKOP to improve accuracy.

• Tree height is measured by CLINOMETER

STAFF COMPASS

HAND COMPASS

TREE PLANTING HOE

TREE RULE

PLANIMETER

SURVEY INSTRUMENT

HIP CHAIN

PLASTIC FLAGGING

TREE MARKING GUN

LOGGER’S TAPE

CLINOMETER

• Clinometer is used to find the height of a tree and slope.

• Tree Injectors are used to dispense herbicides into a tree. Also used to KILL TREES.

• Instrument used in triangulation is ALIDADE

HYPO-HATCHET

CANTHOOK

• Cant Hooks are used for ROLLING AND POSITIONING LOGS.

CHAINSAW

SAFETY HARD HAT

CHAINSAW CHAPS

• Hypsometer – used to estimate merchantable height.

SAFETY GLASSES

ALTIMETER

TALLY METER

FIBERGLASS MEASURING TAPE

FIRE RAKE

DRIP TORCH

• Used in prescribed burns.

DATA RECORDER

FIRE WEATHER KIT

TALLY BOOK

FIRE-SWATTER

DOT GRID

BACK-PACK FIRE PUMP

PLANT PRESS

FLOW/CURRENT METER

SOIL TEST KIT

WATER SAMPLER

DENSIOMETER

WATER TEST KIT

pH METER

HAND LENS / FIELD MICROSCOPE

Bulldozer

Endloader

Feller Buncher

Tree Skidder