Oregon OSHA Yarding and Loading Handbook

[Philbert]

Found this in my 'stuff' - maybe I even found it originally here on A.S. (?). Anyway, looked like it might have some good info in it for some guys, and others might find it interesting to read.

Too big to attach directly.

http://www.cbs.state.or.us/osha/pdf/pubs/1935.pdf

"This handbook focuses on skyline yarding as the most common type of logging operation in Oregon, assuming steep terrain and use of a yarder tower and cable system. Basic information may also apply to other logging methods.

The material in the handbook is intended to reinforce safe practices in a hazardous work environment, based on Oregon OSHA Division 7 Forest Activities safety and health standards, and generations of practical experience in Oregon logging. The main intent is to provide loggers with a readable, easy-to-use resource."



Philbert

 

[Frank Savage]

Nice and comprehensive book, very nice to see simple, but spot on pencil scetches instead of "killer graphics". Found it online right after it was issued, sometimes in 2010, which made a good complement to Grapple yarder and Supersnorkel Handbook, Worksafe BC, 2004
http://www.worksafebc.com/publications/health_and_safety/by_topic/assets/pdf/grapple_yarder.pdf
and Cable yarding systems handbook, WorkSafe BC, 2006(?)
http://www.worksafebc.com/publications/health_and_safety/by_topic/assets/pdf/cable_yarding.pdf
as well as to OSHA Logging e-tool, opened somewhere in the middle here
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/logging/manual/yarding/example_systems.html

I had also some other, quite old, paper about cable yarding, which included all the needed calculations and engineereing spar/vable/soil capacity/machine planning/analysis methods, tables and estimations for cable dia/type/system configuration to load capacity/longevity, but I´ve lost it in a computer burndown which took to hell my first disertation. What a pity, it was realy a "cable yarding for dummies" (well, if the dummy could pass two semesters of university maths and several other courses with flying colors), extremely well made publication.
I was still in the university when I came over these and since then, I have serious trouble discusing cable yarding in my native language. In the "Logging and yarding methods" course it made for some funny moments during lessons and some spooky spoofs during the exam, when using three languages simultaneously in one sentence