Services

Tree Falling

production falling

Services include clear cutting for helicopter, high lead, and conventional logging operations. Faller Supervision can be provided.

Right-of-Way Clearing + MAintenance

We provide tree clearing/danger tree falling in parks, along railway lines, highways, logging roads, powerlines, recreational trails, ski resorts, and golf courses.

residential tree removal / emergency cutting

We offer free estimates, and safe removal of problem trees in the urban environment, by way of climbing and dismantling trees from the top down.

Sawtooth provides clean-up efforts following a major wind event, landslide, or avalanche activity.

Faller Supervision

Faller supervisors provide day-to-day falling operations planning & management, from start to finish for a multi-phase or logging project.

Faller Safety Auditing

We provide the service of faller inspections & stump audits in an active falling site, as required by WorkSafe BC, to ensure best practices are being followed. This due diligence step is often initiated by the Prime Contractor of an operation.

Ski Terrain Glading

We have extensive experience enhancing the ski & snowboard experience for resorts, as well as helicopter, snowcat, and sled-accessed backcountry operations. Project management, run design, or just the cutting can be provided. Debris is left on slope according to required spec’s to allow bug infestation control, and quick decomposition of material.

Past clients include RK Heli, CMH, Kicking Horse Resort, and Sunshine Village Resort.

Chainsaw Training

We offer a single day chainsaw safety course which covers saw maintenance, safe-handling techniques, bucking, and falling trees up to 18cm diameter. This course is perfect for a rural property owners, trail crews, fire crews, firewood hunter-gatherers, and those newly entering a career involving tree removal. Inquire for details.

FireSmart Assessments

As our province experiences larger and more destructive wildfires, there is an ever-increasing concern for property owners to protect values. The assessments cover construction & upkeep of homes & outbuildings, strategic landscaping & planting, and vegetation management of surrounding forested areas in accordance with FireSmart Canada. Learn more about the FireSmart services we offer and the subsidized program available to residents of Golden and Area A.

Fuel Reduction

The strategic thinning of a forest landscape will slow or stop the spread of a running fire, and allow it to burn off the surface fuels only, which can be a good start to protecting communities. Click here to view a scene from a fuel modification project we carried out in Oct, 2021 in Panorama Ski Village, showing debris piles burning amongst a freshly treated area. This project was in conjunction with Wildlands Eco-Forestry, the prime contractor, and the Shuswap First Nations, being the land owner. This type of fuel reduction is a way to restore forests to a state where destructive running crown fires become very unlikely. Cultural burning is another means to achieve this goal.

Contracted Wildfire Services

Sawtooth has a standing arrangement for Danger Tree Assessor/Faller, Faller Co-ordinator, and Danger Tree Specialist services with the BC Wildfire Service, and is called upon as needed. We have sub-contractors on our call list all over the province, enabling us to provide these services to anywhere in BC.

This emergency response style of work, and the dynamic nature of wildfire make for an invigorating lifestyle during busy summers. Our fallers have extensive backgrounds working with fire, and when called upon fill a 14-day shift, followed by a 3-day rest, and often will go back out again. The service provided by contract fallers on the fireline is primarily entering newly burnt timber stands ahead of suppression crews. We’ll conduct danger tree assessments & take appropriate measures to remove overhead hazards that pose risk to those who put out the fire. Here are a few shots of fire scenes from recent years.

Rec Sites & Trails Maintenance

Under contract to RSTBC, we conduct Assessment & Removal of Danger Trees among BC’s iconic backcountry camping areas. Mostly in the spring season, this work is conducted ahead of camping season to ensure the safety of public when enjoying these trails and rec sites.