Working back-to-front- the concept

Regardless of one-site conditions, there are two key factors to consider; harvesting and should start from the landing and/or pose the greatest challenges during forwarding. Challenging areas include those with complicating factor, such as very slopes or soft soil.
If the harvesting operation has been well-planed, forwarding the first loads will take longest because the wood is collected "back-to-."


Maximize productivity by forwarding assortments in the right order

To maintain high productivity, the assortments should be forwarded in a specific order. This requires that work is planned in a suitable way. Optimizing productivity can seem deceptively simple; in general, it requires that you begin by forwarding the assortment with the volume. The remaining assortments should then be forwarded in order of size.
Thus, for each trail, the with the volume should be forwarded .
When dealing with a typical site that produces a large proportion of sawlogs, the assortment that should be forwarded first when using this method is standard .

However, at sites with large proportions of small trees, the wood should be forwarded .
While the examples discussed herein are simpler than situations often encountered in forwarding work, they demonstrate how one should go about planning and executing forwarding operations.


Prioritizing forwarding on the basis of freshness

If the climate favours fungal growth, the may become infected by fungi if it is not delivered to the customer quickly. Scaling regulations stipulate, that fungally infected wood must be downgraded or rejected, which can cause the owner of the substantial financial losses. The is responsible for ensuring that the wood is sufficiently fresh to comply with the scaling regulations and this responsibility is placed on you as a machine .
When there is a risk of fungal infestation the different should be forwarded in an order, that minimizes downgrading risks. This means, that the “most valuable” assortments, which would be most heavily damaged by fungal , should be forwarded . Conversely, assortments whose quality is unaffected by infestations, such as softwood wood and fuelwood, should be the assortments forwarded on each trail.


Example of forwarding using the prioritized method

- Ask the operator to show you where they began their work. Start by forwarding the that has spent the most resting on the ground. Forward the remaining wood in the order in which it was .

- Forward only wood - in this case the sawlogs and spruce pulpwood logs. Do not forward anything other than the wood until the forwarding has caught up with the harvesting.

- Forward all prioritized in one row of logs before starting on the wood harvested on next trail.

- On each trail, the most valuable wood should be first.

- Communicate with the truckers to ensure that they always pick up the wood in the pile first.

- Keep track of the wood and build the up in the same order as the wood was . This will ensure that the truckers collect the wood in the correct order and that the that were harvested first will also be the delivered to the costomer. Mark each pile as it is build up and date the labels to facilitate the work.