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Australian Pine Plywood
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Branches are now overlapping - high competition
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Foresters planning future operations
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Pine is used extensively in house frames and construction
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The harvester arm showing the saw blade and grapple
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The harvester is air conditioned all year round
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Treated 'blue' pine is resistant to termites
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Welcome aboard. My name’s Marcus. I’m going to take you on a tour in our second thinnings job in a single grip harvester.
The harvester has de-limbing knives on it, automatically, so we don’t have to de-limb the tree. It does it automatically when we feed the tree through the harvester head.
So at the moment the computer is optimising the butt length, the tree length and the diameter and picking the right length to cut it into.
We mainly, predominantly cut export and we cut preservation, which is the last piece I just cut, which are little posts you use for vineyards and farmers
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A coupe is a smaller area of land that contains one age class of the forestry tree being grown.
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Branches are naturally dying off in the lower understory as they are not efficient at capturing sunlight so low down in the forest.
You can see that the trees have really started to grow well.
It’s also about the same time that we start to do some of our inventory, where we measure the trees just to see how they’re going and what kind of products we might get out of those thinning operations. Thinning will be done soon to allow better formed trees more opportunity to grow well without so much competition for nutrients, sunlight and water.
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During thinning operations, defective or poor-quality trees are identified and removed from the plantation to reduce competition and encourage the growth and overall health of the forest.
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Forwarder places each log class onto a seperate pile
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G’day, I’m Lucas. I work for OneFortyOne forests in the south Australian region and I work as a resources analyst. Part of my job is understanding how much timber is in the forest so that we can provide enough timber for a sustainable yield for all the local mills.
We typically do that with two methods.
1. The first method is a bit old fashioned but we go out into forests with a tape measure and a vertex and measure lots of plots. There’s examples of plots up on a map on my left screen, and as you can imagine, it’s quite an long job.
2. The other method we use is LiDar which is laser shot from a pane and using a bit of maths we can work out how tall the forests are by the time it takes for the laser to come back up to the plane.
Initially this looks like a series of dots, when you get the data, but as you start to zoom down and look through the data and the point cloud, you can see the trees and the heights. This automation makes fast work of this type of data collection.
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Here are some four year old pine plantation trees in the middle of the forest. This is a really important stage in the lifecycle.
This is the time that we get canopy closure. What that means is when you look out the side, the tips of the branches are nearly touching. This means they’re sort of squashing out all the weeds and everything underneath and start putting on vertical growth and getting much taller.
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Here is a 30 year old pine plantation. You can see that the trees are much more open and that it’s almost a parkland feel underneath the trees. These trees are approximately 30-35 metres in height and are nearly ready to be harvested.
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Hey, my name is Clinton and I work for Green Triangle Forest Products. I’m doing some foliar sampling to check for nutrient deficiencies.
To take the sample, I’ve got a map that’s taken me out to this location and I’ve selected a tree that’s average for this lot. It’s not too small, not looking really unhealthy.
I select a little branch which is called a second order one, not the growing tip, so it should have the average amount of nutrients. I write the details of the location on this bag and I record on my spreadsheet. These then get sent to the laboratory and tested for the nutrient nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and particularly for this region, copper and zinc.
That’s to identify whether there’s anything marginally deficient or a lack of nutrients. Then we can make a decision whether we need to help these trees by spraying that nutrient on them which will allow them to grow better and have great form and continue being a productive forest.
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Hi my name’s Trav. You’re currently in here with me in my harvester in a clearfall operation, harvesting trees that are about thirty years old.
Also a bit about the harvester itself. We cut a range of logs to be exported to China to be woodchip eventually. The logs that we cut in the longer lengths is what will build your home.
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Hi! My name is Clinton Sim, I work for Green Triangle Forest Products and today we’re looking at a soil profile where these pine trees are growing.
I’ve dug a 1m hole here for you. This is deep bleached sand that these pine trees are growing on.
I’ve got a sample here to show you. The top soil is the one on the right of my clipboard - a very black dark horizon where the humic material is. All the nutrients are found in this layer.
If we look deeper down, it gets very bleached white, where over time the rain and weathering has washed away the nutrients and created a deep sand. This is the sample on the left of my clipboard.
If we go back to the profile, we have
1. Very nice black humic area at the top
2. Deeper down, we still have some fertility where the roots are busy getting both water and nutrients.
3. A few roots are going deeper into the bleached sand but that’s just to access a bit of water over the summer, and also to provide anchor during wind so it doesn’t blow over.
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Howdy my name’s Mick and I’m the loader operator.
I’m loading logs on a log truck to go to OFA mill to be processed.
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How’s it going everyone? I’m Bailey, the trainee at Mechanise Logging.
This is my 86.1 forwarder and I’m going to take you for a little run.
We’ve usually have about six products in a strip and we just come through and pick them out one by one.
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Now we’re in a 15 year plantation and you can see that some of the trees have been removed for the thinning operation and some plantations will have a number of these.
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Now we’re in a 20 year plantation. You can see that we’re managing the stocking through here, keeping lots of space and allowing the best trees to grow through.
You might also notice that the lower branches have all browned off and have actually died and the trees will start to self prune. That’s just a natural process as the top of the tree gets higher and higher and the base of the tree gets thicker and thicker.
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Quad bikes restock planters seedling stock throughout the day
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Right now we’re planting pine trees. They’re approximately 6 months old.
We’re planting in an old pine ground. So, the last trees were harvested about a year ago. They were about twenty-eight years old when they were harvested – approximately.
The team out here will plant approximately a thousand trees a day, up to four thousand trees.
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Seed trays are brought into the covered growing area for around six weeks, to allow them to germinate.
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The harvester arm holds and saws the tree into logs
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These tens of thousands of seedlings you’re looking at now are five months old, and are showing good growth.
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This trainee is collecting logs from different classes piles left by the harvester and takes them to the log bay to await collection by the log trucks to take them to the mill.
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We step inside the nursery production shed, where the journey starts. Seeds are collected from parent pine cones, and are sown into growing trays on the sowing line.
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What we’re looking at here is a 25 year old plantation. It’s undergone numerous thinnings and so the trees you should see here are the straightest with the best branching and give us the best opportunity for some saw log for local mills.
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You’re looking at a one-year-old plantation.
At this stage of the plantation lifecycle, we’re really keen to give these trees the best start they can get and that means controlling the weeds and other competition around them.
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