. Handbook for rangers & woodsmen . ^Felled on a Limb Fig. 172. and they should receive the closest attention from the man incharge of tte sale. BUCKING LOGS Improper bucking is responsible for one of the greatest lossesin the lumbering industry. Crooked logs especially presentexcellent opportunities for careless buckers to waste an entiretree when one or more logs might, with proper bucking, besecured. If a tree is bucked at the 16-foot length as shown inFig. 173, there is a 25% loss, all that portion of the log down. Fig. 173. to the 12-foot length being total waste. If the same tree isbucke
. Handbook for rangers & woodsmen . ^Felled on a Limb Fig. 172. and they should receive the closest attention from the man incharge of tte sale. BUCKING LOGS Improper bucking is responsible for one of the greatest lossesin the lumbering industry. Crooked logs especially presentexcellent opportunities for careless buckers to waste an entiretree when one or more logs might, with proper bucking, besecured. If a tree is bucked at the 16-foot length as shown inFig. 173, there is a 25% loss, all that portion of the log down. Fig. 173. to the 12-foot length being total waste. If the same tree isbucked at the 12- and 20-foot lengths two good logs may besecured and practically all the tree utihzed. In Fig. 174, instead of cutting a butt log 16 or 18 feet long,losing the 2 or 4 feet in the crotch and going to the unnecessarytrouble of cutting the two large limbs at 24 feet, and again at36 feet, it would be much more profitable to cut a 12-foot butt GENERAL FIELD WORK 187 log, then cut the crotch at 24 feet and the branches at 36 feet,and thus secure four straight 12-foot logs. The ends of a fewplanks in the middle log might possibly be damaged, but theloss thus sustained would be much less than if the tree werebucked after the first method. Fig. 175 represents loss in a top. The top log would provideenough sound lumber to make its removal from the woodsprofitable. Another waste occurs where 2, 4, or 6 feet of sound log areleft in a top merely because certain log lengths are desired.
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