2023 Skyline Layout, Management, and Safety Workshop
End Date: May 2, 2023
Location: Springfield, OR
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
The registration fee is $345 if received by March 31, 2023 or $425 after March 31, 2023. The registration fee includes a book of speaker materials, coffee, lunch, and other refreshments. Checks should be made payable to Western Forestry and Conservation Association. Purchase orders, VISA/MasterCard, and American Express are accepted. Tax ID # 930-331-712.
Cancellations
Registration cancellations received by March 31, 2023 are subject to a 15% service charge. Cancellations received after that time will be charged the entire registration fee. Substitutions are always welcome. Lodging room cancellation is subject to the hotel’s cancellation policy.
Reduced rate rooms are available at $139/single by calling 541-284-0707 and mentioning Western Forestry and Conservation Association or you can click here to make your hotel reservation online. After March 31st, the reduced rate is subject to availability.
Society of American Foresters CFE credits
By attending this workshop participants will be eligible for credits through the Society of American Foresters. Participants must sign the form at the conference to receive credit.