harvesting a harvesting machine that cuts a tree with a shear or saw and carries one or more cut trees in its hydraulically operated arms as it moves to cut the next tree —note a feller-buncher deposits small piles of cut trees on the ground to be picked up and transported by a grapple skidder, clam-bunk skidder, tree-length forwarder, or cable yarder but not by a regular forwarder This definition last updated 08/07/2008