Title: Identify the use of common forestry tools and equipment.
Course: Forestry Management (18502-I) > Section: Introducing Forestry

Identification may include

- altimeter
- fire swatter
- back-pack fire pump
- flow/current meter
- bark gauge
- compass (staff, hand)
- stereoscope
- cant hook
- hand lens/field microscope
- hip chain
- tally meter and book
- chainsaw chaps
- hypo-hatchet
- clinometer
- increment borer
- caliper (tree, Wheeler)
- data recorder
- log rule
- densiometer
- tree-marking gun
- logger’s tape, diameter tape, and plastic flagging
- tree-planting hoe or bar
- dot grid
- planimeter
- drip torch
- Biltmore stick
- Pulaski forester axe
- fiberglass measuring tape
- relaskop
- wedge prism
- fire rake.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What additional personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used when operating a chainsaw?
- How are global positioning system (GPS) receivers used to determine property boundaries?
- What equipment is common to logging operations?

Teacher Resource: Virginia FFA Association’s Career Development Event Forestry Rules – Senior and Junior (https://www.vaffa.org/forestry)