SKOG101 Forest and Wood Technology

• Timber harvest: Chain saws, felling machines, felling technique, marking for cross-cutting.
• Timber transport: Farm tractors, forwarders, tree-length skidders and more.
• Establishment of new forest: Scarification, planting, weed control and juvenile thinning.
• Wood technology: The properties and utilisation of wood, the sawmilling industry and other forest industries, log scaling, sawmill exercises, sorting of saw logs and lumber.

Knowledge:

The students should be acquainted with the most common methods and equipment used for felling and transporting timber as well as other types of forest work. They are also supposed to know the most important types of industries that use timber as a raw material and how this raw material is valued and classified.

Skills:

The students will, through exercises, acquire skills in planting, clearing, felling, transporting and sawing operations.

General competence:

The students should after finishing the subject have a theoretical and practical basic competence concerning the forest activities covered.