2023 Skyline Layout, Management, and Safety Workshop

Day 1

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 of cable systems and skyline carriages
• Logging around streams
• Laying out a unit with 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
• Understanding wire rope characteristics
• Variables affecting skyline deflection

11:45 – 12:45  Lunch

12:45 – 2:15    Skyline Logging Landings

• How landing layout affects productivity
• Managing wood flow through the landing
• Deploying yarder guylines
• Placement of stump anchors
• Multi-stump anchors
• Machine anchors

2:15 – 2:30      Break

2:30 – 3:15      Rigging Tail and Intermediate Trees

• When and where to use
• Design and layout of tail trees
• Model demonstration for plotting trees
• Field cards for unit layout

3:15 – 4:15      SkylineXL software

• Introduction to SkylineXL
• Determining Skyline Payloads

4:15 – 4:30      Wrap-up

Day 2

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 – 12:00  Tethered Assist

• A game changer for logging safety?

12:00 – 1:00    Lunch

1:00 – 2:00      Cut-to-length Logging

• Economic viability: higher upfront costs with improved safety and decreased stand and soil damage
• Steep slope harvesting

2:00 – 2:30      Workshop review and summary