Image ID:  FHS4024
Image Date:  [no date]
Image Title:  Directional felling.
Image Caption:  Caption 1: The man on the spring board with his ear to the undercut is listening for sounds of cracking or breaking. The big Douglas fir, being felled in rough country, will be sawed into lumber. Today's woods operations in the Douglas fir country insist on low stumps to save wood, and tin hats for the protection of all woods personnel. Most operators use power saws for felling trees like these.

Caption 2: This team of fallers in the big tree section of the Pacific Northwest are sighting from the undercut to determine the exact spot it will fall. Expert fallers can drop a big tree through an apple box set on the ground and take great pride in their accuracy. By direction felling loggers can drop a big tree in the area where its fall will do the least damage to other trees.
Photographer:  Brown, Kenneth S.
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.