The coastal B.C. logging industry is striving to lower its costs in order to continue to compete in the world marketplace. This report documents one company's trials of three different logging systems carried out during 1985. Production and costs were monitored, evaluated, and reported for the falling, skidding, yarding, processing and loading phases. The study area was located in a second-growth stand of timber on Vancouver Island, B.C. The logging system found to be most efficient and cost-effective was bunch skidding with landing processing, combined with close supervision.