2017 Western Region COFE Seminar – Improving Forest Harvest Operations
Location: Valley River Inn, Eugene, OR
0815 – 0830 Introduction to WR.COFE & Seminar
Jeff Wimer, Chair, WR.COFE & OSU FERM Department
SESSION 1: Steep Slope Tethered Assist
0830-0900 Operators in Steep Slope Logging and Safety Measurement
John Garland – Garland and Associates
0900 – 0930 The Rapid Evolution of Steep Slope Winch Assist In the Woods of the Northwest
Bruce Skurdahl – Summit Machinery
0930 – 1000 International research on winch-assist equipment
Dzhamal Amishev – FPInnovations
1000 – 1010 Blount / Oregon Cutting Systems Update
1010 – 1040 BREAK (Refreshments Provided)
1040 – 1050 Peterson Cat
1050 – 1120 Proposed changes for streamside shade buffers with Salmon, Steelhead or Bull Trout streams
Greg Wagenblast – ODF
SESSION 2: Forest Practices Update
1120 – 1150 Potential Changes to Industrial Fire Rules
Chet Behling – ODF
1150 – 1200 Triad Machinery / Link-Belt update
1200 – 1240 LUNCH (Provided)
1240 – 1310 ANNOUNCEMENTS, Ticket Raffle, OSU Student Scholarship Awards –
Jerry Sedlak Memorial Scholarship
1310 – 1320 Pape’ Machinery update
SESSION 3: Technological Innovation in Forestry
1320 – 1350 Estimation of volume and products that can be obtained from individual stems using consumer grade cameras
Bogdan Strimbu – OSU College of Forestry
SESSION 4: Road and Water
1350 – 1420 Driving Technologies – Improving operational efficiencies while on the road
Soona Lee and Jeffrey Bowden – EROAD
1420 – 1430 Ponsse Update
1430 – 1500 BREAK (Refreshments Provided)
1500 – 1530 Slope and Abutment Construction using Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil
Michael Frey – Alliance Geosynthetics.
1530 – 1600 Scour and Redeposition in Streambed Simulated Culverts
Anna Vesper – Weyerhaeuser/OSU
1600 – 1630 Forest Bridges and other Structures
Alex Dunn – McGee Engineering
1630 – 1645 Wrap-Up and Evaluation — Jeff Wimer