How do they match: Fallers

  • Chain Saw Operator
  • Cutter Operator
  • Skidder Operator

  • 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.
  • Secure steel cables or chains to logs for dragging by tractors or for pulling by cable yarding systems.
  • Work as a member of a team, rotating between chain saw operation and skidder operation.

  • Operate forestry equipment.