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Felling
Process of cutting down trees

Felling

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.

How locals move

Getting around Felling the local way

  • Get inFrom Glasgow or Stranraer (for ferries from Ireland) head for Carlisle then follow A69 east - this road climbs no great hills and is rarely closed by winter weather.
  • Get inAn overnight DFDS ferry sails from IJmuiden near Amsterdam to North Shields on the north bank of the Tyne.
  • Get aroundThe Tyne ferry plies between North and South Shields, taking foot passengers and bicycles.

From Wikivoyage: Tyne and Wear, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Julian Herzog (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.