With the tree
length method, two beginnings are possible: (a) Either the tree is delimbed at
the felling site and moved as a tree length all the way to the forest road. Or
(b) it is felled, pre-skidded to the strip road as a full tree and delimbed
there, prior to extraction to the forest road. In both cases, the tree reaches
the forest road as a tree length.
Once at the
forest road, the tree length can be transported to the factory as such (c), or
cross-cut into logs before transport (d) or even chipped at the roadside and
transported as chips (e).
