What Is a Feller Buncher Used For?

Challenge your terminology and share fun facts about the tools of the trade.

It’s the machine that grabs and cuts trees at the stump, then bunches them so a skidder can haul faster — , the name trips folks up. It doesn’t delimb or buck, so as a tool of the trade it’s about speed and staging; here’s a quick explainer: Feller buncher - Wikipedia. On steep slopes or super selective cuts I’d lean harvester/processor instead — anyone here swear by disc saw heads over shear?

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