Log bucking

A crew of log buckers with crosscut saws in 1914.[1]
Bucker limbing dead branch stubs with a chainsaw, also known as knot bumping
Bucker making a bucking cut with a chainsaw
Bucking, splitting and stacking logs for firewood in Kõrvemaa, Estonia (October 2022)

Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.[2] Significant value can be lost by sub-optimal bucking because logs destined for plywood, lumber, and pulp each have their own value and specifications for length, diameter, and defects. Cutting from the top down is overbucking and from the bottom up is underbucking.

In British English, the process is called logging-up[3] or crosscutting.[4]

  1. ^ Johnston, Hank (1968). Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Trans-Anglo Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-87046-017-X.
  2. ^ Kauffman, Henry J.. American axes; a survey of their development and their makers,. Brattleboro, Vt.: S. Greene Press, 1972. 109. Print.
  3. ^ "How to fell trees". www.conservationhandbooks.com. The Conservation Volunteers. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  4. ^ Hibberd, B. G., ed. (1991). Forestry Practice (PDF). London: HMSO. p. 173. ISBN 0-11-710281-4.