LENNY THE LUMBERJACK: SUMMARY

Can U Imagine Productions, PO Box 30215,
Spokane, Washington
99223-0216

TIME: 50 minutes

AUDIENCE: Elementary, secondary/adult level (this might be a bit long for the younger audience, but parts of it could be shown)

SUMMARY:

• real life presentation, narrated by a caterpillar operator.
• filmed in the Williams Lake area.
• focuses on machinery used in the harvesting process – both conventional and mechanical – good opportunity to see how logging is done today compared to the turn of the century.

Machines in the order they appear:

• feller buncher and conventional tree falling
• 235 backhoe – also explains setting of chokers
• crawler tractor
• KMC – for steep slope logging
• D5H caterpillar
• 528 caterpillar
• Delimber as well as conventional method
• D4H
• Loader
• logging trucks

from the landing, logs are put into water and then transported to sawmill

NOTE: video ends with an interview with a Registered Professional Forester who discusses the reforestation process with emphasis on : soil disturbance protection, water quality and utilization.

NOTE: This next segment is a little advanced for some pupils – it’s short but following this you will get a summation of the machinery.