The Oregon OSHA Cable Yarding and Loading Handbook focuses on skyline yarding on steep slopes.Even though the information is aimed at the use of skylines with a conventional yarder tower on steep slopes, the information is applicable to other methods. The Oregon OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) have produced a logging handbook which is readable and easy to use. It is intended to reinforce safe practices during cable yarding. The handbook covers the following areas:
- Planning for the unit
- Setting up the landing – production planning, yarding machinery, standard layouts and developing a safe work area.
- Machine and equipment inspection – machines, spar, carriages and rigging, wire rope and line connections.
- Anchors – anchor safety, single-stump anchors, multiple-stump anchors and alternative anchors.
- Setting up the yarder – moving the yarder, guylines, raising the spar and changing roads.
- Rigging the yarding lines – yarding systems, line safety, tailholds, elevated supports and tree climbing.
- Yarding the logs - landing operations, rigging crew and major hazards for the rigging crew.
- Landing the turn – landing crew, landing the turn, unhooking the turn and major hazards for the landing crew.
- Loading the logs – machine operations and log trucks.
- Worker safety rules
- Signs and signals
- Yarding and loading glossary
The handbook was compiled by J Wimmer, T Hammond, P Fehrenbacher and M Lulay, and is free-for-download from http://www.cbs.state.or.us/osha/pdf/pubs/1935.pdf