Choker glossary and government resources

Choker : a noose of wire rope used for skidding or yarding logs. See Highlead system. [Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]

DOL WHD: SCA Occupation Directory - 08040 CHOKER SETTER
Fastens choker (noose of wire rope, cable, or chain) to log end. Choker is attached to skidder or cable to be pulled to landing or loading area.

Steel Erection eTool: Cranes - Choker
Choker, Close. Choker.

Logging eTool: Text of the OSHA Logging Preamble - Yarding
...the particular situation to hook or unhook the choker from the uphill side. This provision also requires that when the choker is hooked or unhooked from

Logging terms and Bibliography
The sliding, bell-shaped socket which hangs on a choker cable. ... choking it with a loose loop of choker cable from the back end, toward the landing,

FACE 91-21
...pulling a wire rope load choker attached to a crane cable toward a load. The choker was to be connected to a steel roof joist which was to be lifted 150

FACE 9235
...line from the boom-mounted winch around the fallen limb in a choker hitch, ... nylon winch line around the limb and formed a choker hitch by attaching

Docket No. 99-0239, Croman Corporation
...bundles of wire rope slings or chokers to the choker setter (Tr. 40, 47-48). The choker setter then attaches the choker to the tree and signals the next

Docket No. 99-1590, Boh Brothers Construction Co.
Boh contends that its employees rigged the load using a choker hitch that ... drew a similar distinction between a choker hitch and a basket hitch.

California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 5041. Definitions.
Choker Hitch. A sling configuration with one end of the sling passing under ... of the male handle and thereby allow use of the sling in a choker hitch.

Untitled Document
Employees known as “choker-setters� set short choker cables around individual ... rigged the drop line to the choker on the turn and signaled the yarder

Heart rate strain in cable hauler choker setters in New Zealand ...
This study examined the physical strain experienced by cable hauler choker setters, and the applicab

Hoopa Forest Industries (HFI)- Hoopa Valley Tribe
Lyle Baldy Jr., Choker Setter Floyd Montgomery, Cat Operator ... Henry McCullough, Choker Setter Albert Gray Jr., Loader Operator

Metal and Nonmetal Mine Fatal Accident Investigation Report: 11/13 ...
As each piece was removed, it was secured by a shackle and steel choker, ... they would cut a hole to fit the shackle and then attach the steel choker.

Fatal Alert Bulletin for Coal Mine Fatality on July 25, 1995<title>
...a dragline oiler, performing the task of a choker attendant, ... The victim had just observed that attachment of a choker chain (5/8" x 25') on the

BLM - Environmental Education - Green Mansions
In this system, logs are attached by a vertical cable (choker) to a carriage, which slides ... The choker cable then lifts the trees by their bottoms,

US Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service Gulf of ...
...two-legged choker sling cable, which weighed approximately 80 pounds. The D-ring of the choker sling cable was secured with the safety latch for the

Choker
...one lane at the choker point, requiring motorists to yield to each other. ... (at the location of the choker), it will have a minimal effect on speed.

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