WDSC 422 Harvesting Forest Products
Syllabus
Class Notes
- Introduction and Terminology
- Forests and Logging Business in West Virginia
- Felling Methods Harvesting Head Review
- Ground-based Extraction
- Delimbing and Bucking
- Loading and Transportation
- Bucking Optimization
- Cable and Aerial Logging Systems
- Chipping and Wetland Systems
- Thinning Systems
- Biomass Harvest Systems and Logistics
- Interactions of Stands, Harvests, and Machines - System Introduction and Applications
- Logging Safety and OSHA OSHA Logging eTool
- Workers Compensation Insurance; for more information, please visit WV Workers Conpemsation Commission or WV Office of the Insurance Commisioner.
- Production Estimation I
- Production Estimation II
- Logging Cost Estimation
- Logging System Analysis I
- Logging System Analysis II Auburn Harvesting Analyzer Machine Rate Calculator Central Appalachian Harvesting Analyzer
- Contract Services and Independent Logging Contractors
- Timber Sales - Notes from Dr. McNeel
- Managing Site Impacts
- Best Management Practices I
- Best Management Practices II
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- Harvest Planning
- Antitrust Laws and Other Legal Issues
- Logger Certification, Trade Association, and Academic Society
Lab Assignemtns
- Lab1: Slide and video show - Logging History Lab Notes
- Lab2: Skidder Productivity Analysis Skidder Productivity Analysis Worksheet Reference
- Lab3: Truck Axle and Weight Laws and Calculations
- Lab4: Harvesting Simulator Analysis
- Lab5: Local Logging Operations at University Forest
- Lab6: Local Logging Operations - conventional harvesting
- Lab7: Road Grade
- Lab8: P-Line Survey
- Lab9: RoadEng
- Lab10: Local Mechanized Logging Operations
- Lab11: Logging System Analysis Auburn Harvesting Analyzer Machine Rate Calculator Central Appalachian Harvesting Analyzer
- Lab12: BMPs Compliance Assessment on Local Logging Operations
- Final Project: Harvest Planning for a University Forest Tract Spatial Data Instructions and Other Related files