bunch about two feet from the butt of the bunch the top end b 2 of the felled tree bunch b is resting on the ground the cylinder 59 for the heel boom 58 is then actuated to bring the heeling fork 66 down into engagement with the tree bunch b immediately adjacent the lower end b 1 and well in front of the point at which the grapple 32 secures the tree this pivots the auxiliary boom 58 downwardly until it is substantially parallel to the stick boom 49 between the pivot 61 of the cylinder 59 and the pivot 56 where the grapple 32 is connected the operator then actuates the cylinder 44 to drive the main boom 41 forwardly simultaneously the cylinder 51 is actuated to pull the stick boom 49 downwardly the effect is to pull the tree bunch b forwardly and at the same time press the butt of the bunch b downwardly as this takes place the tree bunch b moves forwardly and rotates in a counterclockwise direction about the axis formed by the grapple pivot 56 point forward movement and rotation of the tree bunch b continues until the bunch has reached the position shown in fig5 with the bunch disposed approximately parallel to the ground the machine 10 can then transport the tree bunch b easily out of the logging area it will be seen of course that the top end b 2 of the tree bunch needn 39 t be lifted completely off the ground to achieve many of the purposes of the invention.