Timber Haul glossary: forestry words explained

Timber Haul uses real forestry words. This glossary explains each one in plain words, in alphabetical order. The pages linked from each word tell you more.

Words from A to Z

Word	What it means in Timber Haul
Axle load	How much weight one axle (a pair of wheels) carries. Each truck axle should carry 10 t or less. See mills and pay.
Birch	A tree with white bark. Birch is never a sawlog in the game; it becomes pulpwood or energy wood.
Boom	The long arm of a crane. Raise boom and Lower boom move it up and down.
Bunk	The load bed of a forwarder or truck, with stakes on the sides. Reach load bunk moves the crane over it.
Chapter	One forest in your winter season. There are three. See the three forests.
Checkpoint	A saved copy of the start of a chapter. Restart this chapter goes back to it.
Condition	How healthy a machine is, from 0 to 100%. Repair it at the workshop.
Conifer	A tree with needles, like pine and spruce.
Crane mode	When the machine is parked and you control the crane. The screen says Crane parked.
Crook	A bent part of a trunk. A log with a crook can never be a sawlog.
Cutting choices	The best log lengths the harvester suggests, with what each log is worth.
Deadline	The last day to finish a chapter on time, shown as Due.
Deep ruts	Deep tracks that heavy machines press into soft ground after the thaw.
Delivery note	The mill's note after weighing: the pay and any fine.
Energy wood	Thin tops and short or poor pieces, burned for heat at Birch Hill Heating. The cheapest kind.
Feed	Pushing the trunk through the harvester head before a cut. Feed back pulls it back.
Fell	To cut down a standing tree. Hold to fell runs the saw.
Fine	Money you pay at the mill when your truck is too heavy: $150 for each tonne over.
Forest pile	A small pile of fresh logs next to a cut tree, waiting for the forwarder.
Forwarder	A forest machine with a crane and a load bed that carries logs from the forest to the road. See the three machines.
Free play	Playing on after the season is done, in any forest, at your own pace.
Grapple	The claw at the end of a crane that grips logs.
Gross weight	The whole truck, trailer and timber together, in tonnes.
Harvester	A forest machine with a cutting head that fells trees and cuts them into logs. See felling and cutting.
Harvester head	The big tool at the end of the harvester's crane. It grips, saws and feeds the trunk.
Hitch	To connect the trailer to the truck. Hitch / unhitch works when you are stopped.
Landing	The place by the road where timber waits for the truck. In the game, the Roadside landing by the workshop.
Lift clear	Lifting the logs high so they do not drag or bump.
Log	A piece of a tree trunk, cut to length.
m³ (cubic metre)	How timber is measured: a block 1 metre long, 1 metre wide and 1 metre high.
Medal	An optional extra goal in each chapter, like Tidy loads.
Mill	A place that buys timber. The game has four. See mills and pay.
Mire	A wet, boggy area of land. Mire Edge has the softest ground in the game.
Operator	A hired driver who works a machine for you. See hired operators.
Pine	A tree with long needles. Pine sawlogs pay the most.
Pulpwood	Logs too thin or crooked for a sawmill, used to make paper. Taken by Coast Pulp Mill.
Recover	Bringing a stuck or tipped machine back to the landing, for $150.
Road ban	After the thaw, the forest road is closed to loaded trucks.
Roadside pile	A pile of logs at the landing. There are three: sawlogs, pulpwood and energy wood.
Sawlog	A thick, straight log of pine or spruce that a sawmill turns into boards. The most valuable kind.
Season	The whole career: three forests in one winter.
Slew	Turning the whole crane left or right. In the game, Swing left and Swing right.
Snow chains	Chains on the tyres that help them grip on snow and ice.
Spruce	A tree with short needles that grows in thick forests. Spruce Slope is mostly spruce.
Stem	The trunk of a tree.
Strip road	The narrow track through the forest where the harvester and forwarder drive.
Telescope	The part of the crane that slides out to reach farther. Shorten and Extend move it.
Thaw	When spring makes the frozen ground soft. Loaded trucks then cannot use the forest road. See winter and money.
Timber	Wood from trees, cut into logs.
Timber truck	A road truck with a crane and a trailer that carries logs to the mill.
Trailer	The second part of the timber truck, with its own load bed.
Weighbridge	A big scale at the mill that the truck drives onto to be weighed.
Work day	One day in the game's calendar: 20 minutes of active play.

Timber Haul glossary: forestry words explained

Words from A to Z

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