Operations: Harvesting

• Cut-to-length
  Highly trained foresters use computerized equipment to directionally fell, delimb and cut trees to length in one operation. A forwarder then picks up the timber and piles it roadside, minimizing ground disturbance, while the equipment itself creates narrower trails, making cut-to-length the technique of choice for smaller spaces and sensitive or aesthetically pleasing areas.
• Mechanical harvesting
  Skilled operators cut and haul many trees at a time using feller bunchers and grapple skidders and also expertly merchandise the timber into logs and other wood products using delimbers.
•  Conventional harvesting
  Harvesters cut one tree at a time using chain saws. The timber is then removed from the forest with cable skidders.