The LUMBERING program prepares students to work in the logging and lumbering industry. Lumbering offers a wide range of career options. Getting a tree from its natural woodland state to forest industries for processing is the goal of the lumbering student.
Safety is stressed as students are taught the full spectrum of the industry. Logging includes chainsaw operation and maintenance, tree felling, skidding, bucking and hauling. Sawmilling includes portable bandmill and circular saw operation, maintenance and sharpening along with other auxiliary sawmill equipment. To upgrade their educational experience, students are taught aspects of forestry and environmental techniques to aid them in logging. Added training in sawmilling addresses the principles of grade sawing hardwoods and lumbers and logs scaling and grading activities. Students also experience heavy equipment operation and maintenance.
Over-the-road truck licensing is an option after they turn 18 years of age. As lumbering seniors, students formulate logging and sawmill companies to address the entrepreneur skills of lumbering. An addition to the lumbering equipment is a new computerized CNC router to expose the students to high-tech computerized secondary wood processing equipment.
