Mich. Admin. Code R. 408.15107 - Definitions; L to P
Rule 5107.
(1)
"Limb" or "limbing" means the act of cutting the limbs from felled or standing
trees.
(2) "Limber" means a person
or machine that limbs
(3) "Loader"
means a mechanical device that loads logs.
(4) "Lodged tree" means a tree that is
prevented by another tree from falling to the ground.
(5) "Log" means a segment sawed or split from
a felled tree, such as a section, bolt, or tree length.
(6) "Logging equipment" means a mechanically
powered device used in a logging operation.
(7) "Logging operations" means the operations
that are associated with felling and moving trees and logs from the stump to
the point of delivery, such as any of the following:
(a) Marking.
(b) Felling.
(c) Bucking.
(d) Limbing.
(e) Debarking.
(f) Chipping.
(g) Yarding.
(h) Loading.
(i) Unloading.
(j) Storing. The term includes the
transporting of machines, equipment, and personnel from one logging site to
another.
(8) "Machine"
means a piece of stationary or mobile equipment which is a self-contained
powerplant, which is operated off the road and which is used for the movement
of material. "Machine" includes any of the following:
(a) A tractor.
(b) A skidder.
(c) A front-end loader.
(d) A scraper.
(e) A grader.
(f) A bulldozer.
(g) A swing yarder.
(h) A log stacker.
(i) A mechanical felling device, such as tree
shears or a feller-buncher. "Machine" does not include an airplane or aircraft
such as helicopters.
(9)
"Mechanical felling device" or "feller buncher" means equipment used to harvest
trees.
(10) "Mechanical ram log
splitter" means a machine for splitting logs that uses a mechanical means to
cause a wedge to pass through a log.
(11) "Mobile equipment" means equipment,
except for an over-the-road vehicle, that is required to be mobile to perform a
part of its work function.
(12)
"Notch" or "undercut" means a notch made in a standing tree at the beginning of
the felling operation that guides the direction of the fall of the tree. See
figure 1 of
R 408.15156.
(13) "Prehauling" or "forwarding" means the
hauling of forest products, before highway or rail movement, by off-the-road
vehicles, by nonhighway transport, or by any other means where the forest
products travel clear of the ground.
(14) "Protective helmet," "hard hat," or
"safety hat" means a rigid device which is designed to protect the head from
flying and falling objects or electrical shock, or both, and which is held on
the head by a suitable means of suspension.
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