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Widowmaker in New Mexico. In forestry, a widowmaker or fool killer is a detached or broken limb or tree top. The name indicates that such objects can kill forest workers by falling on them, thus "making widows" of their spouses.
Widow-Maker, Pecos Bill's horse in American folklore; Widowmaker, a military unit in Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 3; Widow-maker, a Decepticon heavy from Marvel's Transformers franchise; Widowmaker , a character from the 2016 video game; The Widowmaker, an ace starfighter pilot in the video game Colony Wars: Vengeance
Cutting trees with the highest value and leaving those with lower value, often diseased or malformed trees, is referred to as high grading. It is sometimes called selective logging, and confused with selection cutting, the practice of managing stands by harvesting a proportion of trees. [9] Logging usually refers to above-ground forestry logging.
A felled and delimbed tree is cut into logs of standard sizes, a process called bucking. A logger who specialises in this job is a buck sawyer. Bucking may be done in a variety of ways depending on the logging operation. Trees that have been previously felled and moved to a landing with a log skidder are spread out for processing. While many of ...
Cut-to-length logging (CTL) is a mechanized harvesting system in which trees are delimbed and cut to length directly at the stump. [1] CTL is typically a two-man, two-machine operation with a harvester felling, delimbing, and bucking trees and a forwarder transporting the logs from the felling to a landing area close to a road accessible by ...
Testing showed that Prewitt had a widow maker heart attack. “I was able to be brought back,” Prewitt says, adding that he regained consciousness about 24 hours later. Widow maker heart attack
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people.
The widow of a Pinellas Park, Florida, firefighter, who asked to go by Trudy, says she spent six months struggling to gain access to funds her husband of 56 years had left behind.