Employees engaged in ``cruising * * * timber'' include all those
members of a field crew whose purpose is to estimate and report on the
volume of marketable timber. Employees engaged in ``surveying * * *
timber'' include the customary members of a crew accomplishing that
function such as the chairmen, the transit men, the rodmen, and the
axmen who clear the ground of brush or trees in order that the transit
men may obtain a clear sight. Similarly, the usual members of a crew
which go to the woods for the purpose of felling timber and preparing
and transporting logs are engaged in operations described in the
exemption. Typically included, when members of such a crew, are fellers,
limbers, skidders, buckers, loaders, swampers, scalers, and log truck
drivers.
