How do they match: Fallers

  • Logger
  • All-Round Logger

  • Work as a member of a team, rotating between chain saw operation and skidder operation.
  • Assess logs after cutting to ensure that the quality and length are correct.
  • Clear brush from work areas and escape routes, and cut saplings and other trees from direction of falls, using axes, chainsaws, or bulldozers.
  • Load logs or wood onto trucks, trailers, or railroad cars, by hand or using loaders or winches.
  • Mark logs for identification.
  • Measure felled trees and cut them into specified log lengths, using chain saws and axes.
  • Place supporting limbs or poles under felled trees to avoid splitting undersides, and to prevent logs from rolling.
  • Secure steel cables or chains to logs for dragging by tractors or for pulling by cable yarding systems.
  • Select trees to be cut down, assessing factors such as site, terrain, and weather conditions before beginning work.
  • Split logs, using axes, wedges, and mauls, and stack wood in ricks or cord lots.

  • Cut trees or logs.
  • Determine forestry techniques or methods.
  • Evaluate log quality.
  • Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment.
  • Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
  • Mark agricultural or forestry products for identification.
  • Measure physical characteristics of forestry or agricultural products.
  • Operate forestry equipment.