Harvest Operations Consulting:

Forest Engineering is a trade term covering planning, design, construction and maintenance of systems associated with timber harvest. Logging Engineering is more focused on the design and execution of harvest systems. One becomes a forest or logging engineer through a combination of work and training. Forest and Logging Engineers are not qualified as NC licensed engineers therefore we are not allowed to use these terms in NC.

Planning is the biggest cost control available in harvesting. Planning helps us determine the right system to minimize cost, minimize disturbance, and maximize value recovery. Planning is where we identify the optimal harvesting systems and determine the most optimal and practical harvesting tools. We will analyze your property with regard to site and stand conditions, road network, and financial targets to build the most successful strategy to meet your needs. Payload analysis, rigging applications, and anticipated production will drive your project toward successful outcomes.

Mechanized Logging, Tethering with Winch Assist, Cable Systems, and Helicopter: Modern advanced systems carry high fixed costs. It is critical to have the support structures in place to make them successful. Anticipating production, supporting surge volume, layout, rigging configurations, and logisitics, we help you execute. We provide support to your existing teams to make sure the behind the scenes preparation and execution support is in place. We can build a management framework for your logging outfit to build structure, safety, and confidence in outcomes.

Machine cost and system cost analysis. Road cost vs logging cost. Utilization and its effect on cost. Productivity studies including time and motion studies: we can bring you data driven analysis to help drive profitability.

Bringing fresh eyes into your operation will bring new insight into your potential. We will help you find durable long-term solutions to eliminate non-productive delays, bottlenecks, and downtime to drive profitability.

We understand forest operations across the landscape. Minimizing disturbance helps us maintain our growing medium, our soils, to support our forests, and assures water quality protection. We will build harvest systems or modify existing systems to bring lower disturbance to your harvesting operations while keeping cost and productivity goals in line.