FE 450 Spring Quarter

Picture Show

	Picture Taken - 4/5/2K Description: You can see the excitement on Peter's face as he finally received his new Dell lap top that he’s been waiting a long time for.
	Picture Taken - 4/5/2K Description: The senior Forest Engineers do not (yet) have the qualifications to operate a real tower due to productivity (e.g. lack of the number of turns per minute), so they practice on model towers. This particular tower is a scaled down version of the old Berger towers. This represents a 100' tower back in 1964 (approximately 1/10 the actual size).
	Picture Taken - 4/5/2K Description: Some times we need something to fiddle around with. Shown are the drums that are used to operate the model Berger yarder pictured above. The motor is operated by electricity. The best part of all, the drums are interlocked.
	Picture Taken - 4/5/2K Description: Barry was feeling a bit saucy as it got late into the night, so he decided to play a little prank on our project advisor while he was on the phone…. Too bad Barry, someone was watching.
	Picture Taken - 4/10/2K Description: Once again, us Engineers can not get enough of the yarder. Bill, Barry, and Tamra felt they were working too hard and needed a break so they were trying to rig up a running skyline with a mechanical slack pulling carriage. We are still trying to get a straight answer from one of them if it actually worked.
	Picture Taken - 4/12/2K Description: Here is a picture of the class room and some of the design team members. They are hard at work digitizing in settings, landings, and roads.
	Picture Taken - 4/13/2K Description: A week after receiving his lap top, Peter was still enthralled with the new technology it had to offer.
	Picture Taken - 4/17/2K Description: The engineers found another toy to go along with the yarder. This one is an old steam donkey. It has two drums that are operated by using breaks and can be rigged for just about any system (highlead, North Bend, grabinsky, except running skyline). This old one-of-a-kind model yarder was originally run using the large black boiler (pictured). But now it can either be run using electricity or compressed air. Whoever built this model, the UW Forest Engineering class of 2000 salutes them!!!!
	Picture Taken - 4/17/2K Description: As it can be seen the class can not get enough of this model donkey. Luke Rogers shown right is at the helm pulling in the turns. He is getting a hard time from some of the students due to lack of production. But that is to be expected because the donkey is being run off the electric motor. Everyone knows that back in these days those yarders had only two speeds.....STOP and GO (that is GO fast)!!!
	Picture Taken - 4/17/2K Description: Shown here is a picture of the carriage that goes along with the steam donkey. This also is a marvel in itself.
	Picture Taken - 5/1/2K Description: It is early on Monday morning as Bill, Tamra, and Justin are getting their stuff packed up so they can spend the day in the field.
	Picture Taken - 5/2/2K Description: We had the honor of visiting the PorTac mill and scaling station. Here the class is learning how the scalars store the wood data into their handy little computers. These computers store information such as the scribner volume of wood, percentage of defects, wood type ect.
	Picture Taken - 5/2/2K Description: At the PorTac mill we got a quick glimpse of a rather large log loader unloading a log truck. The log loader pictured is a LeTurneau. This loader has a large diesel engine that powers a generator. This generator runs the whole machine, drive train and everything.
	Picture Taken - 5/2/2K Description: After a hard day in the field we came back and had a quick meeting with some of the clientele. Bill Traub seen standing on the left is the forest engineer in the Olympic region. Sue Trettevik is seen with the red jacket in front of Bill Traub, she is the landscape planner for the Olympic region
	Picture Taken - 5/4/2K Description: We are quite happy today because we got one of our longest roads traversed. This particular point is about 2 miles from the car on top of a peak. From what we can tell, this used to be a old landing that was used when this area was logged in the early 1900's.
	Picture Taken - 5/4/2K Description: Shown here is some of the more interesting jeep trails we have had the honor to drive. There is no place these university burbans can't go!!
	Picture Taken - 5/8/2K Description: Here is a picture of the 2000 FE seniors on top of an old Berger Mark VI yarder. We found this yarder in a grave yard along with massive amounts of other logging equipment that was used back in the day when one log loads were not unusual. See other pictures below of this yarder on an actual site running.
	Picture Taken - 5/8/2K Description: The class got the chance to go and see first hand how a Timberjack 1270B runs and operates. This piece of machinery is owned and operated by Plienes logging located in Forks, Washington.
	Picture Taken - 5/11/2K Description: This once in a life time sight is a logging operation that was using the largest yarder ever made. This yarder is the Berger Mark VI. There was only two of these yarders ever made and we got a chance to see both of them. One of them is pictured in a grave yard above and the other is in operation. The funny thing is, at this particular operation it is only pulling in payloads of about 1,000 - 2,000LBS. It was quiet a sight to see this big of a machine pulling in those dinky loads. Just for scale purposes look at the size of the yarder compared to the gas tanker truck parked next to it.
	Picture Taken - 5/11/2K Description: Here is a picture of the Berger Mark VI tower looking up. It is stretched out at 100 feet with all ten guylines holding it up. The size of each of the guy lines alone were 1 inch thick. This yarder is a marvel, and we are lucky that we actually got to see it run. This big of equipment is just not used in today's harvest operations.