Tethered CTL in Western Oregon: Productivity, Cost and Environmental Impacts of Steep Slope Harvesting in Western Oregon

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• Personal Author:
  Belart F ; Chung W ; Fitzgerald S ; Garland J ; Green P ; Leshchinsky B ; Morrissette B ; Sessions J ; Wimer J
• Description:
  Motivations: Logging is "difficult, dirty, dangerous, and declining." Logging is the first step in an industry that generates over $5.2 billion in revenue for Oregon alone. Workforce, mechanization, political environment are all drivers of change. Research Arms & Goals: Assessing practical and physiological response of logging workers. Assessing environmental impacts of various steep-slope harvesting systems. Measure shift-level productivity of felling and yarding as part of worker risk exposure. Development of guidelines and design criteria for new logging systems. Take-Away Messages, Management Implications: Soils are complex, site conditions are important! Wet, dry, clay, sand, etc... Horizontal and vertical benefits through careful implementation of cable-assistance; Financially practical. As we develop steep-slope technology, where are our new opportunities for improvement? Operator training/ability; Machine maintenance/design; Regulatory environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Forestry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Costs Environmental Impacts Equipment Design Equipment Operation Logging Industry Machine Operators Machinery Soil Mechanics
• Publisher:
  Council on Forest Engineering (COFE)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-39
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060733
• Citation:
  2019 Western Region COFE Seminar - Improving Forest Harvesting Operations, January 17, 2019, Eugene, Oregon. Morgantown, WV: Council on Forest Engineering (COFE), 2019 Jan; :1-39
• Email:
  preston.green@oregonstate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon State University - Corvallis
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150901
• Source Full Name:
  2019 Western Region COFE Seminar - Improving Forest Harvesting Operations, January 17, 2019, Eugene, Oregon
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:24f49a911e1a6998c7b44ac902252aa613572b142f0e22d2f0bf8d3ed7fef791fac910820f405e9792bb901fff6423b9378c185a12c11a4825ddf304b7de4f0c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224560/cdc_224560_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.40 MB ]