Braid (forestry)
Braid comes in various different terms in forestry .
- The top part of a tree, the top , is also known as the braid .
- In the forest work the activity of removing the branches , twigs and the tops, in the processing of felled trees, is referred to as plaiting .
- In the case of a felled tree, the trunk is divided into earth trunk , middle trunk and the plait piece . This piece of plait is not the top (plait), but the top piece of the felled and de-tipped tree.
- The plait diameter (also called plait thickness) denotes the diameter at the thin end of the plait piece, the trunk that has been processed into round wood. It plays a special role in the sorting of raw wood . Most timber buyers require a certain minimum diameter. This can e.g. B. in the Heilbronn sorting between 10 and 30 cm.
Web links
Wiktionary: Zopf - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
literature
- Stinglwagner , Haseder , Erlbeck: The cosmos forest and forest lexicon. 3rd edition, Kosmos-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-440-10375-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Österreichische Bundesforste AG: Natur.Raum. Management. No. 30, 2016, p. 5, online (PDF; 3.37 MB), at bundesforste.at, accessed on January 19, 2017.
- ↑ Bernd Wittchen, Elmar Josten, Thomas Reiche: Holzfachkunde. 4th edition, Teubner, 2006, ISBN 978-3-519-35911-1 , p. 99.