The Process of Logging - A Photo Documentary, or
Rick Neitzel's "Art of Freezing Your Butt off in Driving Rain and Snow at a Godforsaken Remote Logging Site"

Road construction crews build and maintain gravel and dirt roads to make logging sites accessible to heavy equipment

Once roads have been constructed, a felling crew moves into the area to be logged to fell trees

Felled trees are cut into sections (bucked) and limbs are removed (limbed) by the felling crew

Once a site's timber has been felled, a "yarder" (with tower and cables) is moved to the site to bring the 
logs from the tree felling area to the landing area, where logs are to be loaded onto log trucks

Logs at the felling site are attached to yarder cable rigging (chokers) by chokersetters and dragged to the 
landing site by the yarder

Logs are unset from the chokers at the landing site by the landing man

Logs which have not already been prepared by the felling crew are bucked and limbed by a "processor" after
they are removed from the yarder rigging

On flat terrain, no yarder is needed; "shovels" (log loaders) can retrieve the logs by traveling around the felling area

Yarded logs which have been bucked and limbed are loaded onto log trucks by a shovel
 

Trucks loaded with logs proceed to a log handling facility where they are unloaded by log "stackers" for debarking

Logs are moved to a debarking facility by stackers

Debarked logs are placed in storage bunkers by stackers prior to shipment overseas (via ship) or domestically 
(via truck or train)

In an unrelated but nevertheless fascinating process, trucks loaded with wood chips unload vertically into a
hopper which feeds into a pulp mill