• Logging Home Page

  • Scope and Application
  • OSHA Logging Standard
  • Develop a Site Safety and Health Plan
  • Developing a Tree Harvesting Plan
  • Manual Operations
  • Mechanical Operations
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Credits

USING THE ADVISOR AS A TUTORIAL

Select any of the lessons below, or you can complete the lessons in order as outlined.

UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION

• Lesson 1. Scope and Application

• Lesson 2. Develop a Safety and Health Plan

  • Developing a Tree Harvesting Plan

UNIT 2 MANUAL OPERATIONS

• Lesson 3. Logger

  • A. Required Training and Qualifications for Loggers
  • B. Personal Protective Equipment
  • C. Chain Saw
  • D. Other Hand Tools and Equipment

• Lesson 4. Felling Trees

  • A. Potential Hazards
  • B. Identifying the Appropriate Felling Direction
  • C. Retreat Path
  • D. Felling Hinge
  • E. Making the Cuts
  • E. Kinds of Notches
  • G. Dangerous Results of Incorrect Felling

• Lesson 5. Limbing and Bucking

  • Yarding

UNIT 3 MECHANICAL OPERATIONS

• Lesson 6. Mechanical Operations

  • A. Feller Buncher and Feller Forwarder
  • B. Grapple Skidder
  • C. Forwarder
  • D. Processor/Harvester
  • E. Processing at the Yard
  • F. Machine Operators

• Lesson 7. Yard Operations

  • A. Processing at the Yard
  • B. Log Loading and Transporting

• Lesson 8. Other General Requirements
  • A. Flammable and Combustible Liquids
  • B. General Requirements for Machines and Vehicles
  • C. First Aid
  • D. Explosives