A choker setter or choke setter is a logger who attaches cables to logs for retrieval by skidders or

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s. The work process involves the choker setter wrapping a special cable end (choker) around a log and then moving clear so the yarding

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(e.g. skidder operator) can pull the log to a central area. In clearcutting, fallers will typically cut down all the trees and

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and buck them into logs before the choke setters and others arrive to remove the logs.

Radio controlled

Old chokers were made of metal. New chokers are safer, quicker and thus more productive. They are also radio controlled.

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Information Technology Associates - Dictionary of Occupational Titles
{{Forestry Logging Forestry occupations Logging in the United States Timber industry

Radio controlled

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