When: Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, and Sunday, May 19: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
What: A three-day course offering training for the selection, care, maintenance, and use of traditional forestry tools and equipment. This course is appropriate for anyone who has no or very little experience working with woodland tools and would like to learn the fundamentals necessary to perform woodland work.
Format: Day 1: Introduction to hand tools highlighting forest axes, crosscut saws, scythes, and human-powered log-moving systems. Once tools are prepared, we will head to the woods to learn chopping, tree felling, and de-limbing techniques as we take down a few carefully selected trees.
Day 2: Focus on power chainsaws as a woodland tool. After a thorough safety training, we will learn how to use our saw in the log yard to buck to length trees that are on the ground before heading to the woods to do the same work. Learned safe operating procedures will guide the felling of small diameter trees as part of woodland stand improvement plan.
Day 3: Moving wood from the woodlot to the processing area using human power, draft animal power, and finally a tractor with a forestry winch attached to extract logs from the woods to the log yard. In the log yard, we will learn how to use hand tools to hew logs into usable building timbers, an Alaskan chainsaw mill to convert logs into lumber, and make boards using a small bandsaw mill.
Limit 4 participants.
Your instructor: Rick Thomas, BS, CJF, KY Master Logger #KY-103-094
Horse, Mule, and Oxen Teaching Teamster and Woodland Skills Instructor
Instagram: @teaching_teamster
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY
Cost: $100
Payment invoice will be sent after Registration Form has been submitted.
