Exercise 2.1.5.1 – Make Notes from the reading under the following headings
• The felling operation
• Cracks and Tension
• Felling Techniques (tilting down, crane lift, pulling and pushing)
• Felling thin, medium and thick trees
• Felling using multiple cuts (counter cuts) around obstacles and close to machine
• Felling in windy conditions
• Felling in sloped terrain, dealing with forked trees
• Challenges of felling big trees
• One-sided Harvesting
• One-sided with ghost and branch trails
• Two-sided Harvesting