A professional who harvests timber trees, performing combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:

• Fells trees in specified direction, removes limbs and top, and measures and cuts tree into log lengths, using chain saw, wedges, and ax.
• Secures cables to logs and drives tractor or horses to skid logs to landing.
• Loads logs onto trucks by hand or using winch.
• May drive truck to haul logs to mill.