2022 Skyline and Logging Safety Workshop
Agenda
Start Date: April 12, 2022Location: Virtual via Zoom
April 12, 2022
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
April 13, 2022
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
April 15, 2022
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?
About the Conference
Webinar attendees will receive a pdf of the speaker’s PowerPoint slides prior to each session. About the Instructor
Jeff Wimer recently retired from OSU where he served as a senior instructor at Oregon State University where he managed the Student Logging Program. Prior to OSU he worked for his family’s logging and trucking company in Albany, OR. Wimer Logging Co. ran 4 tower sides and had 48 trucks. Jeff serves as chairman of the Western Regional Council on Forest Engineering, is past President of the Oregon Logging Conference and the Pacific Logging Congress. He serves on the OR OSHA forest activities code committee. He has written 3 books on logging safety. Today he provides safety consultation services to the logging community.