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The beginning of the year is high season at the Sandhof Forestry Office: Chainsaws, harvesters and logging horses are in constant use. Every morning the foresters set out and fell the marked trees. Logging in piecework, a tough job, but the mood is good. It's all routine. Tree after tree falls. No matter how great the deadline pressure, the men work carefully. They know full well that working with a chainsaw is the most dangerous work in the forest. They must not stumble and must always watch out for dead trees falling behind them. At the same time, Christian Salomon's two logging horses pull the felled wood to the logging road. Trunk after trunk, the cold-blooded animals till the forest area. With two horsepower over the muddy forest floor, this year it has rained more than usual. After six hours, it's time to call it a day, and the horses are exhausted. Forestry office manager Frank Zerbe is urgently waiting for the state's own harvester. It is due to arrive in mid-February, but experience has shown that the date is often postponed because the giant machine often has technical problems. But there are plenty of areas where the machine still has to harvest the wood. Customers also urgently want to get the ordered wood out of the forest. In addition to all these difficulties, the wood harvest in the Sandhof district is also special because Frank Zerbe and his district managers want to manage the forestry office sustainably. ______________________________________ The farm stories on ndr.de https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendunge... The North Reportage https://www.ndr.de/dienordreportage _________________________________________________ Our guidelines for comments: https://www.ndr.de/service/technische...