How do they match: Fallers

  • Appraise trees for certain characteristics, such as twist, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauge amount and direction of lean, to determine how to control the direction of a tree's fall with the least damage.
  • Control the direction of a tree's fall by scoring cutting lines with axes, sawing undercuts along scored lines with chainsaws, knocking slabs from cuts with single-bit axes, and driving wedges.
  • Insert jacks or drive wedges behind saws to prevent binding of saws and to start trees falling.
  • Load logs or wood onto trucks, trailers, or railroad cars, by hand or using loaders or winches.
  • Secure steel cables or chains to logs for dragging by tractors or for pulling by cable yarding systems.