Skyline Layout, Management and Logging Safety

Monday, February 10, 2020
8:00   Workshop Introductions and Overview

8:15   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   Break

10:15   Payload, Productivity and Efficiency

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

11:45   Lunch (included with registration)

12:45   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   Break

2:30   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   SkylineXL software

• Introduction to SkylineXL
• Determining skyline payloads

4:15   Wrap-up

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
8:00   Logging Safety

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

9:30   Break

10:00   Tethered Assist

• A game changer for logging safety?

12:00   Lunch (included with registration)

1:00   Cut-to-length Logging

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

2:00   Workshop review and summary

2:30   Workshop adjourns