Teaching material:
The practical forestry training covers the following subject areas:
- Young growth care:
- Afforestation planning, mixed forest establishment
- Assessment of damage caused by game
- Game protection measures (spreading, discarding, sheep's wool, tree protective cover, browsing protection caps) - Thickness maintenance:
- Assessment of a thickening
- Determination of the felling method, wood storage area, skidding lanes
- Identification of the thickening
- Handling the chainsaw
- Working with the chainsaw (diagonal cut, swing method) - Thinning:
- Assessment of a log
- Determination of the felling method, the wood storage area, the felling lanes
- Declaration of the thinning
- Working with the chainsaw (drop notch, lever method, felling cut, ax feel, swing method, felling lever -boy)
- Value measurement - Forwarding:
- Safety measures
- Advancement (manual)
- Forwarding with tractor and winch (handling the tractor, operating the winch and safety measures, attaching the wood) - Forestry planning and forest inspection:
- End-use planning in clear-cutting, in the single-trunk method, in field felling
- Location and stand descriptions
- Introduction to forest education
- Bark beetle situation and other forest pests - Wood sales:
- shaping and classification
- measuring wood
- writing down the wood (writing it down by number, dotting, determining mass)
Teaching forest:
For practical training in “forestry” we have access to our school's own teaching forest with a size of 180 hectares. The Lehrforst offers us all the opportunities we need for a varied practical training. The aim of the educational forest is, among other things, to impart the practical basics of forestry management in a farmer's forest. In addition to using the teaching forest for practical training, we need it for teaching trips, excursions, diploma theses, project studies, introductions to hunting and forest education, recreation space for students, etc. We organize events every year together with the forestry training centers in Gmunden and Ossiach as well as the accident prevention institute unscheduled practical projects to give our students not only a lot of skills but also a lot of security at work.
Impressions of the practical forestry training:
