Faller Use axes or chainsaws to fell trees using knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage.
Faller is Also Know as
In different settings, Faller is titled as
- Cutter Operator
- Logger
- Sawyer
- Timber Cutter
- Timber Faller
- Tree Faller
- Tree Feller
- Tree Topper
Education and Training of Faller
Faller is categorized in Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Faller
Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
Education Required for Faller
Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Degrees Related to Faller
Training Required for Faller
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Faller in different industries are
- Tree Trimmers and Pruners
- Log Graders and Scalers
- Logging Equipment Operators
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
- Forest and Conservation Workers
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Rock Splitters, Quarry
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Foresters
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Carpenters
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
What Do Faller do?
- Stop saw engines, pull cutting bars from cuts, and run to safety as tree falls.
- Appraise trees for certain characteristics, such as twist, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauge amount and direction of lean, to determine how to control the direction of a tree's fall with the least damage.
- Saw back-cuts, leaving sufficient sound wood to control direction of fall.
- Clear brush from work areas and escape routes, and cut saplings and other trees from direction of falls, using axes, chainsaws, or bulldozers.
- Measure felled trees and cut them into specified log lengths, using chain saws and axes.
- Assess logs after cutting to ensure that the quality and length are correct.
- Determine position, direction, and depth of cuts to be made, and placement of wedges or jacks.
- Control the direction of a tree's fall by scoring cutting lines with axes, sawing undercuts along scored lines with chainsaws, knocking slabs from cuts with single-bit axes, and driving wedges.
- Trim off the tops and limbs of trees, using chainsaws, delimbers, or axes.
- Select trees to be cut down, assessing factors such as site, terrain, and weather conditions before beginning work.
- Maintain and repair chainsaws and other equipment, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and sharpening equipment properly.
- Insert jacks or drive wedges behind saws to prevent binding of saws and to start trees falling.
- Tag unsafe trees with high-visibility ribbons.
- Secure steel cables or chains to logs for dragging by tractors or for pulling by cable yarding systems.
- Load logs or wood onto trucks, trailers, or railroad cars, by hand or using loaders or winches.
- Mark logs for identification.
- Work as a member of a team, rotating between chain saw operation and skidder operation.
- Place supporting limbs or poles under felled trees to avoid splitting undersides, and to prevent logs from rolling.
- Split logs, using axes, wedges, and mauls, and stack wood in ricks or cord lots.
Qualities of Good Faller
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Faller
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Auger bits
- Boom boats
- Caulk boots
- Chain flail delimbers
- Chain saw chaps
- Chain saws
- Climbing belts
- Combi cans
- Debarking tools
- Diameter tape measures
- Digital tachometers
- Emergency first aid kits
- Feller bunchers
- Felling axes
- Felling wedges
- File sharpeners
- Flat files
- Forestry helicopters
- Forwarder cranes
- Frequency modulation FM two way radios
- Gas cans
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Grapple yarders
- Guylines
- Hand winches
- Haulback lines
- Hydraulic jacks
- Impact resonance devices
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Laptop computers
- Log skidders
- Logging boats
- Logging tractors
- Logging trucks
- Mechanical tree harvesters
- Personal computers
- Pocket calculators
- Portable dry chemical fire extinguishers
- Protective ear muffs
- Protective hard hats
- Protective safety glasses
- Pullthrough delimbers
- Remote detonation systems
- Resistographs
- Round files
- Rubber tire skidders
- Screnches
- Self-loading log transporters
- Sharpening jigs
- Skidding lines
- Skylines
- Snow shovels
- Sonic devices
- Strawlines
- Stroke delimbers
- Tablet computers
- Timber tongs
- Tower yarders
- Tree climbing spikes
- Tuning screwdrivers
- Warning whistles
- Wide track bulldozers
- Wood chippers
Technology Skills required for Faller
- Assisi Compiler
- Assisi Software Assisi Inventory
- Assisi Software Assisi Manager
- Assisi Software Assisi Resource
- BCS Woodlands Software The Logger Tracker
- BCS Woodlands Software Woodlands Tracker
- ESRI ArcView
- Geographic information system GIS systems
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word