254 Acres Machine Piling in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests; Machine pile all slash lying within designated units; a. The purchaser shall machine pile all slash created by the timber sale as shown on the project map. Piles shall be compact, free of soil and of sufficient size to facilitate burning. Piles will be a minimum height of 6 feet (at a ratio of 2 vertical feet by 3 horizontal feet; a pile 6 feet high needs to be 9 feet wide) and shall be placed no closer than 100 feet from the outside perimeter of the unit, property line, system roads, wet areas, or other areas designated on the ground by the COR. No pile or windrow shall be closer than 30 feet from any standing reserve tree. No piles or windrow shall be left within 200 feet of existing structures. No slash or logging debris shall be left outside the marked cutting or sale boundary. All material extending more than 6 feet beyond the outside perimeter of the pile shall be broken or trimmed off and returned to the pile. b. The crawler-type excavator shall be equipped with a grapple or bucket with a thumb, or a combination of both. The machine must be capable of reaching 15-20 feet either side of the machine and able to pile slash at least 10 feet in height. The grapple or bucket thumb combination must be capable of grasping slash 2 inches to 30 inches in diameter. The excavator must be capable of operating on 40 percent side slopes. c. Timber sale unit boundaries are painted with three orange horizontal lines on the face of the tree and vertical lines following the boundary on both sides of the tree. Piling unit boundaries differ from timber sale boundaries in some units (see attached maps). Piling unit boundaries may be flagged as determined necessary by COR.
