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Tree fallers need to be practical, physically fit, and extremely safety conscious. They need to be self-reliant, with good judgement and decision-making, and hard-working.

The work can mean early morning starts and sometimes long travel distances. A year-old timber faller was killed by a small fir tree hung up in a larger tree he was falling. Cutting a strip with his partner, the pair were working their way uphill, and days earlier had cut a 6 in.

diameter fir, about 45 ft tall, that had lodged in an adjacent stumpcutting.barg: human tree. A faller is a logging worker, part of an industry that harvests millions of trees each year around the world.

For the most part a crew will consist of one or two fallers, a log cutter, and several equipment operators who remove the trees and load them.

Throughout history the profession was known as the lumberjack and the image of a burly man in chainsaw boots, checkered flannel shirt and suspenders forms part of legend and popular culture. Lumberjacks were heros in folklore and fairy tales, such as Paul Bunyan and Little Red Riding Hood, and there are many lumberjack Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Mar 22, Here’s another sign that your tree may be dead or dying. If you find patches of missing bark- otherwise known as cankers- on the trunk of your tree, you might want to have it examined by an Arborist.

The presence of cankers is a sign that the tree is dying. Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Jul 15, Location. NW Washington. Tree faller dies from logging accident. Below is an article from the local paper. Lets be careful out there. By Randy Trick, Peninsula Daily News. There was nothing that year-old logger Shain Keys could have done to prevent his death Tuesday morning, a state investigator said stumpcutting.barted Reading Time: 5 mins.