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

skidder A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut timber, trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto t ...

s 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 Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down. Along with Shelterwood cutting, shelterwood and Seed tree, seed tree harvests, it is used by foresters t ...

, fallers will typically cut down all the trees and

limb Limb may refer to: Science and technology *Limb (anatomy), an appendage of a human or animal *Limb, a large or main branch of a tree *Limb, in astronomy, the curved edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body, e.g. lunar limb *Limb, in botany, t ...

and buck them into logs before the choke setters and others arrive to remove the logs. New chokers are often radio controlled, making the job both easier and safer.

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

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