In recent years, the use of mechanized tree-felling methods has increased significantly in the Interior of British Columbia. Usually felling heads are mounted on large and expensive excavator carriers. Although these machines do fall and bunch medium and large stems very efficiently, it is important to develop some low-cost, light-weight, felling heads that can be mounted on less-expensive carriers and used for harvesting low-volume small -diameter stands. A number of felling heads are on the market already, and they have been competing with the larger machines with varying degrees of success, feric observed a Canasaw sawhead mounted on a rubber- tired John Deere 743 feller-buncher.