This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be adopted when carrying out mechanical roadside processing in forestry and other tree work.

This leaflet covers the use of an excavator conversion or purposebuilt harvester for felling and processing trees in forestry and other tree work.

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when operating a wood chipper.

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when using small, independent or tractor-mounted, mobile peeling machines.

This leaflet covers the extraction of timber using horse and chains (snigging), or horse and simple skidding units and forwarders in forestry and other tree work.

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when using mobile circular saw benches in forestry.

This leaflet covers the use of cable crane systems for the extraction of whole trees, poles or shortwood to the roadside.

This leaflet covers the use of a wire, rope, hydratong or clambunk skidder for timber extraction in forestry and other tree work.

This leaflet covers the use of a tractor and trailer unit fitted with a grapple loader or a purpose-built forwarder for extraction of timber in forestry and other tree work.

March 2018 - This Safety Guide has been ‘partially’ updated to reflect the new ‘stack heights’ guidance.  503 will be further updated to the new style towards the end of 2018.

This leaflet covers the safe working practices to be followed when using either a tractor or hand winch as an aid to directional felling and takedown operations in forestry and tree work.