Professional Timber Harvester

Today's Education Improves Tomorrow's Resources

Missouri's professional loggers are a vital part of the forest products industry. Their complex business concerns include productivity, safety, and environmental issues. Decisions they make today will have an impact for many decades to come. Professional loggers share the responsibility with landowners and foresters to help ensure Missouri's renewable forests can be sustained for this century and beyond.

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                  PIEDMONT: Session A

                  Forest Management                February 6
                  Level 1 & 2                             February 12-13
                  Level 3                                    April 9
                  Level 4                                    June 11

                  WINONA: Session B

                  Forest Management                February 7
                  Level 1 & 2                             February 14-15
                  Level 3                                    April 10
                  Level 4                                    June 12

                  SALEM:: Session C

                  Forest Management                March 5
                  Level 1 & 2                             March 11-12
                  Level 3                                    April 8
                  Level 4                                    June 10

                  WINONA: Session D

                  Forest Management            September 3
                  Level 1 & 2                             September 9-10
                  Level 3                                    November 5
                  Level 4                                    TBA

                  MACON: Session E

                  Forest Management                October 8
                  Level 1 & 2                             October 14-15
                  Level 3                                    December 10
                  Level 4                                    TBA

Course Description

Forest Management: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Best Management Practices
  
• Managing for long-term profitability
  
• Forest ecology & wildlife
  

Level I 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Protective equipment
  
• Parts of saw, their purpose, settings, and proper sharpening techniques
  
• Saw inspection and safety procedures
  
• Benefits of controlled felling
  
• Bore cutting
  

Level II: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Establishing the notch and hinge
  
• Use of felling wedges, collecting data on hazards, tree height and lean, and planning escape route
  
• Chain filing and bar care
  
• Cutting spring poles
  
• Each participant fells a tree
  

Level III: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Calculating tree lean limits
  
• Advanced cutting and wedging techniques on leaning trees
  
• Bucking and limbing methods
  
• Each participant fells a tree
  

Level IV: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Advance felling
  
• Planning efficient harvest layouts
  
• Use of other powered forest management tools
  
• Final evaluation and scoring
  
• Each participant fells a tree
  

The professional Timber Harvester Program is designed to educate the logger, skidder, forester, forest contractor, and landowner in sustaining the forest resources.  The Professional Timer Harvester Program will help accomplish goals today without sacrificing the benefits of tomorrow.

Benefits of the Program

• Insures Safer Working Environment
  
• Sustains Future Harvests
• Increases Timber Volume and Quality
• Complies with OSHA Standards
  
• Can Lower Insurance Rates
  
• Builds Pride
  
• Extends Life of Equipment
  
• Increases Competitiveness
  

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