I’ve been to Burma several times. While there I learned how the elephants are used to harvest teak.
About six months before they want to harvest the trees they go in and strip a ring of bark off each tree they want. They go back when the trees have died and use the elephants to push the tree over. The tree then rolls down the hill to a river, or drug out where it falls after being stripped of it’s branches.
At least that’s how they did it in the ‘old’ days.
Very neat. Thanks for sharing.