The Felling

The latest round of tree felling is taking place on our route out of here and they are clearing through the trees about 10 yards into the forest, i.e. leaving a a border of trees between the road and the clearing. I stopped for 10 minutes to watch what they were doing... I say they... it was a single he, and saw this amazing machine doing it all. First it sort of pulls the tree up, tips it horizontal, then peels all the branches off and cuts into regular sized logs, as can be seen to the left here. All of that in about 30 - 45 seconds. The "machine" only had one sort of claw that did all these things... it was fascinating.

We often see deer popping in and out of these trees and they don't seem to have been put off by similar felling a few years ago on the other side of these same forest. My understanding is that the landowners are treating the various forests in the area as a crop and plant new trees in the same area.