Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Labor and Economic Opportunity
MIOSHA
General Industry and Construction Safety and Occupational Health Standards
General Industry Safety Standards
Part 51 - LOGGING
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section R. 408.15108 - Definitions R to Y

Universal Citation: MI Admin Code R. 408.15108

Current through Vol. 24-16, September 15, 2024

Rule 5108.

(1) "Rated capacity" means the maximum load that a system, vehicle, machine, or piece of equipment was designed by the manufacturer to handle.

(2) "Root wad" means the ball of a tree root and dirt that is pulled from the ground when a tree is uprooted.

(3) "Serviceable condition" means a state or ability of a tool, machine, vehicle, or other device to operate as it was intended by the manufacturer to operate.

(4) "Skid" or "skidding" means the act of dragging logs on the ground.

(5) "Skidder" means a person or machine that skids logs.

(6) "Slasher saw" means a mechanical saw used for bucking.

(7) "Slope" means the increase or decrease in altitude over a horizontal distance expressed as a percentage. For example, a change of altitude of 20 feet (6m) over a horizontal distance of 100 feet (30m) is expressed as a 20% slope.

(8) "Snag" means a standing dead tree.

(9) "Spring pole" means a tree, sapling, or limb which is bent under tension and which springs out after the tension is released.

(10) "Tie down" means a chain, cable, steel strips, or fiber webbing and binders attached to a truck, trailer, or other conveyance as a means of securing loads and preventing them from shifting or moving when being transported.

(11) "Tractor" means a powered vehicle which is for off-the-road hauling or towing and which is equipped with crawler tracks or wheels.

(12) "Tree harvester" means a mechanized, self-propelled machine that is designed to perform 1 or several logging functions, such as felling, limbing, bucking, chipping, skidding or loading.

(13) "Undercut" means a notch cut in a tree to guide the direction of the tree fall and to prevent splitting or kickback.

(14) "Vehicle" means a car, bus, truck, trailer, or semitrailer which is owned, leased, or rented by an employer and which is used to transport employees or move material.

(15) "Winching" means the winding of cable or rope onto a spool or drum.

(16) "Yarding" means the movement of logs from the place they are felled to a landing.

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