Logger who attaches cables to logs for retrieval by skidders or skylines
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.
^McEvoy, Thomas James; James Jeffords (2004). Positive Impact Forestry: A Sustainable Approach To Managing Woodlands. Island Press. p. 165.
ISBN1559637897.
^Crutchfield, James A. (2007). It Happened in Oregon, 2nd Edition. It Happened In. Morris Book Publishing. p. 97.
ISBN0762744812.
^Philbrick, Frank; Stephen Philbrick (2006). The Backyard Lumberjack: The Ultimate Guide to Felling, Bucking, Splitting & Stacking.
Storey Publishing.
^Salisbury, Mark (2008). Ilearning: How to Create an Innovative Learning Organization. Wiley; International Society for Performance Improvement. p. 101.
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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.
ISBN1449042406.
Ross, John (2004). Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left. Nation Books. p. 79.
ISBN1560255781.