Maine Department of Corrections

On-the-job Training

• Module 1
  • General logging practice
  • Understands and uses terminology common to the practice of wood harvesting
  • Application of timber stand improvement practices
  • Tree planting and reforestation
  • Understands and applies safe choker setter practices
  • Inspects equipment for safety prior to use and performs necessary basic maintenance tasks
  • Safety practices - personnel, site, equipment
  • Chainsaw operation and maintenance
  • Clear brush from work areas and escape routes, cut saplings and other trees from direction of falls using axes, chainsaws, or bulldozers
  • Tag unsafe trees with high-visibility ribbons
  • Collects data as needed and submits repots
  • Understands basic team operations
• Module 2
  • Skidder operator
  • Loader operations
  • Scaling, utilizations, and measurements
  • Tree feller / tree bucker operations
  • Control/ operate hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees
  • Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industry or company standards
  • Measure felled trees and cut them into specified log lengths, using chainsaws and axes
• Module 3
  • Advanced general logging practice
  • Control the direction of a tree's fall by scoring cutting lines with axes, sawing undercuts along scored lines with chainsaws, knocking slabs from cuts with single-bit axes, and driving wedges
  • Principles of road building
  • Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads
  • Operates, maintains, and performs small repairs / CAT and front-end loader
• Module 4
  • Tree feller
  • Mobile Yard operator
  • Drive and maneuver mechanical equipment and tree harvesters to shear the tops off of trees, cut and limb the trees, and cut the logs into desired lengths
  • Determine forestry techniques or methods best suited to site