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Cost Effective & Environmentally Sound

Choosing Canadian Air-Crane as your heli-logging partner maximizes your harvesting options. Today’s loggers are not bound by the limitations of conventional logging practices.

Heli-logging with the Erickson S-64 Aircrane is a cost-effective and environmentally sound method of harvesting wood. Timber is picked up and flown out from where it is felled, rather than being skidded across the forest floor.

Canadian Air-Crane can handle all logging prescriptions, including: shelter wood, patch cut, selective and clear-cut methods. Our Erickson S-64 Aircranes can dead-lift larger timber pieces and can fly uphill as well as they do downhill. This allows us to use landings or road systems that may exist above a cut block.

Working with Canadian Air-Crane allows you to capitalize on prime logging opportunities while preserving the natural beauty of the forest.

   

Conventional Helicopter Harvesting

Strengths:

  • Focus on the stand value and the individual log value to determine the most efficient log lengths to be removed.
  • Versatility over the entire landscape.
  • Minimize new road construction and associated future liability.
  • Extend the conventional limits of harvesting over the landscape.

Focus:

  • Incorporate helicopter over the landscape to balance the yarding efficiency of the various phases.
 

Environment:

  • Provide a light
    footprint approach.
  • Introduce selective, variable retention aspects to the landscape.
  • Capture volume and value where roads will not go.
  • Provide a natural disturbance type pattern on
    the landscape.

Values:

  • Longer lengths at the landings.
  • Maximize the capital employed at the landing.
  • Incorporate one or more of the bunching or stand-ing stem tools into the surrounding conventional helicopter setting.