Felling

Two lumberjacks at work on a tree on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 1890–1900
A completed undercut in a Sugar Pine tree in Madera County, California around 1911.[1]

Felling is the process of cutting down trees,[2] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Johnston, Hank (1968). Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Trans-Anglo Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-87046-017-X.
  2. ^ a b "Feller" def. 2. and "Felling", def. 1. Oxford English Dictionary 2nd ed. via CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press. 2009.

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