Harvesting
is one of the main functions of harvesting. The term has two meanings: As
a general term it includes felling of trees, processing to a transportable
product and the extraction from the forest to the customer. As a more precise
term it only points to the change of state of the product, while the extraction
is not included.
In this
narrow sense the harvesting includes the sub-functions felling, delimbing,
topping, cross-cutting or bucking and chipping. All
other sub-functions except the felling is called processing as well.
