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= = =Feller Buncher=

The Feller Buncher is the best invention that came to the logging operation. A Feller Buncher is a machine that has two functions. One function is to cut the tree down, the other function is to trim the tree from it limbs and cut the tree into certain lengths. A Feller Buncher is actually the equivalency of ten to fifteen people. =History= In 1968, Erv Drott created the first feller buncher. This machine more like a excavator with a boom mount with a saw attached to it. Many of the loggers in the west coast were threatened by this machine and it ability. This machine would replace the people that would risk there lives by cutting a tree down manually, this machine could cut down about hundred trees per hour. That is way more that a crew of lumberjacks.

=Types Of Machines= Drott’s Feller Buncher Tracked Feller Buncher Hydrostatic Feller Buncher Three-wheeled Feller Buncher Selective Cutting Feller Buncher



=Salary= A tree harvester makes between 21,000 to 59,000 a year. The median for this job is 32,000 a year =Job Description= What you do as a tree harvester? I use heavy machinery and use it to cut down trees My machine cuts down the tree and also strips the branches. This machine also bunches them together so that the operator can put them into piles for the people who pick them up.

=Education= Need a High-school diploma Need to go to a 2 year college On the job training Some programs you should take are forest harvesting feller buncher Equipment operation =**Tools of the trade**= You need a hard hat, gloves, eye pertection and warm clothes. You also need to pack food because feller buncher operators tend to stay in the woods all day. = = ==

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