felling

thumb|Two lumberjacks at work on a tree on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 1890–1900 thumb|A completed undercut in a Pinus lambertiana|Sugar Pine tree in Madera County, California around 1911.

Felling is the process of cutting down trees, an element of the task of logging. The person cutting the trees is a lumberjack. A feller buncher is a machine capable of felling a single large tree or grouping and felling several small ones simultaneously.