2021 Webinar: Skyline and Logging Safety Workshop

All times listed: US Pacific Standard

All workshop registrants will receive an email with the password needed to view the recordings below. Click on any of the green section titles below to view a recording of that section.

April 20, 2021

8:00 – 8:15      Workshop Introductions and Overview

8:15 – 10:00    Unit Layout – How to layout a unit

• Different levels of harvest planning
• What is successful skyline harvesting?
• Review cable systems and skyline carriages
• Streams
• Unstable steep slopes

10:00 – 10:15  Break

10:15 – 11:45  Payload, Productivity and Efficiency

• Skyline deflection – Safe working Loads
• Factors that influence productivity
• Wire rope characteristics
• Variables affecting skyline deflection

11:45 – 12:45  Open Session for Questions

April 22, 2021

8:00 – 10:30    Skyline Logging Landings

• How landing layout affects productivity
• Wood flow through the landing
• Yarder guylines
• Stump anchors
• Multi-stump anchors
• Machine anchors

10:30 – 10:45  Break

10:45 – 11:30  Rigging Tail and Intermediate Trees

• When and where to use
• Design and layout
• Model demonstration
• Field cards for unit layout

11:30 – 12:00  SkylineXL

• Introduction to SkylineXL
• Determining Skyline Payloads

12:00 – 1:00    Open Session for Questions

April 27, 2021

8:00 – 9:30      Logging Safety

• What unit layout can do for unit safety
• Review of major watch-out situations

9:30 – 10:00    Break

10:00 – 11:30  Tethered Assist

• A game changer for logging safety?

11:30 – 12:30  Open Session for Questions