The first step in the logging process is felling the standing tree. At Tri-State we fell the trees with a chainsaw. In other parts of the country, where trees are logged at smaller diameters, logging is done often times with a mechanical harvester. In most of the Midwest the trees are harvested at a size where the trees are too large for a typical timber harvester and many of the tracts of timberland are too small for a timber harvester to be economically transported to. When felling trees by chainsaw we use directional felling of the trees to minimize the damage of the residual stand. After the tree is on the ground the tree is delimbed and topped.
The logging process