Felling
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This article is about felling trees. For other uses, see Felling (disambiguation).
Felling is the process of downing individual trees,[1] an element of the task of logging. The person cutting the trees is a feller.[1]
Methods[edit]
Hand felling[edit]
In hand felling, an axe, saw, or chainsaw is used to fell a tree, followed up by limbing, bucking in traditional applications. In the modern commercial logging industry, felling is typically followed by limbing and skidding.
Feller buncher[edit]
Main article: Feller buncher
A feller-buncher is a motorized vehicle with an attachment which rapidly cuts and gathers several trees in the process of felling them.
In cut-to-length logging a harvester performs the tasks of a feller-buncher additionally doing the delimbing and bucking of the trees as well.
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