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Mp762: Harvesting Equipment Cycle Time And Productivity Guide For Logging Operations In Maine, Patrick Hiesl, Jeffrey G. Benjamin

Miscellaneous Publications

This guide provides cycle time and productivity information for harvesting equipment commonly used in Maine’s logging industry for partial harvests. Data were collected in terms of time consumption per work task. With these data, cycle time equations were developed. Productivity functions were developed using tree volumes. It is important to remember that productivity may vary from stand to stand due to differences in tree volume at the site level. Cycle time functions are independent of tree volume and will give fairly accurate predictions of time consumption per machine.

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Folk Culture. Popular Culture. Bingo. Junkyards. Folk Music. Big Paul Bunyan, Maine “folk hero,” is an ad salesman’s product. His nemesis stands in the heart of the great North Woods.

Content

• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat, this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 9 View from Pier Road
• 10 We Are What We Buy L.L. Bean and the Beans of Egypt) Maine have some things in common) says George Lewis) a sociologist and Maine native. We …

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 ‘Nobody Cuts the Same’ Cutting fish at O’Hara’s in Rockland, Maine, is a family affair where brothers and sisters, fathers and sons work together.
• 14 Lamont Allen, Sr. A fish filleter for forty years, Lamont, now 49, is one of the fastest in the trade.
• 20 Norman Collins To get ahead as a fish filleter, what you need is “that old drive,” says Norman.
• 22 Put The Hammer Down Leo Thibeau of Kennebunk, Maine has a strong man’s trick of his own that not even the legendary John Henry claimed to do.
• 26 Laying the Keel Salt covers …

B751: The Effects Of Mechanized Harvesting On Soil Conditions In The Spruce-Fir Region Of North-Central Maine, Gregory T. Holman, Fred B. Knight, Roland A. Struchtemeyer

Bulletins

The impact of the new harvesting methods on soil with respect to soil disturbance is largely unknown. One objective of this study was to determine the extent of soil compaction and disturbance to the organic cover of the soil resulting from the use of mechanical harvesters and rubber-tired skidders during logging operations in north-central Maine.

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 River Driving on the Kennebec Salt interviews 24 men and women of northwest Maine about river driving, the now outlawed act of driving logs through the mighty rivers of Maine to the mills where they are processed.
• 6 The Men The “rough, solid, individuals” that have worked on the river and in the woods.
• 9 Herding Logs How the logs are transported across lakes and down river.
• 19 Drivin’ a Stick-and Other Jobs Jobs on the river and tools of the trade.
• 21 Logging in Winter The same men who hurled cantdogs in the spring and summer were …

Salt Bicentennial Maine, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

• 6 Twelve Miles Off the Mainland Natives of the rocky island of North Haven, Maine tell how they get what they need to survive.
• 14 Goat Island Lighthouse It takes a special kind of person to live on an island alone and tend a lighthouse. The Goat Island lighthouse keeper and his wife describe their life.
• 28 Gill Netting Herbert Hutchins takes Salt out gill netting for the day and we learn how it’s done.
• 34 Ships in Bottles Richard Nickerson of Arundel gives a step by step demonstration of how to construct …

Tb25: The Effect Of Stand Factors On The Productivity Of Wheeled Skidders In Eastern Maine, Ernest B. Harvey Iii, Thomas J. Corcoran

Technical Bulletins

The objective of this study was to determine what forest stand factors, as they constitute a set of operating conditions, affect skidder and skidder crew productivity and the degree of their effect.

Tb17: Fiber Weight And Pulping Characteristics Of The Logging Residue Of Seven Tree Species In Maine, Harold E. Young, Andrew J. Chase

Technical Bulletins

This publication presents information on fiber weight and pulping characteristics of the logging residue of red spruce, red maple, white birch, white pine, balsam fir, hemlock, and aspen. The accumulation of evidence concerning the amount of fiber in the present logging residue and the pulping potential of that residue justifies this synthesis of the various studies in a single publication.

Tb10: A Comparison Of Arch-Yarding And Ground-Skidding Of Pine Sawlogs In The University Of Maine Forest, Henry A. Plummer, Roger F. Taylor

Technical Bulletins

The decision whether to use a trailing-arch or operate by ground-skidding methods may face many sawlog producers. This case study attempted to determine statistically whether there existed significant differences between the two methods of operation by examining the various activities performed by a crawler-type tractor within the arch-yarding and ground-skidding phases of a harvesting system.

Tb7: Scheduling Of Pallet Trucks In Pulpwood Operations, Thomas J. Corcoran

Technical Bulletins

This study illustrates a method of scheduling pallet trucks using data obtained from pallet operations in Maine. The method, which is based upon a linear programming technique, can be employed in the determination of the minimum number of trucks required to handle a continuous flow of pulpwood in situations involving multi-pickup and multi-delivery points. In addition, the program establishes times and places of pulpwood pickup and delivery for each required truck.