felling
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thumb|Two lumberjacks at work on a tree on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 1890–1900 thumb|A completed undercut in a Pinus lambertiana|Sugar Pine tree in Madera County, California around 1911.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Methods
- Hand felling
- Feller buncher
- Types of cut
- Reasons for felling trees
- Regulations and Industry Standards
- Occupational Safety Standards
- Environmental Regulations
- Industry Certification and Best Practices
- Boom-corridor experiment
- Gallery
- References
thumb|Two lumberjacks at work on a tree on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 1890–1900 thumb|A completed undercut in a Pinus lambertiana|Sugar Pine tree in Madera County, California around 1911.
Felling is the process of cutting down trees, an element of the task of logging. The person cutting the trees is a lumberjack. A feller buncher is a machine capable of felling a single large tree or grouping and felling several small ones simultaneously.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “felling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.