EVALUATION OF CHIPPER - FORWARDER BIC & fASS HARVESTING
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-A chipper-fonuarder system offers an alternative for biomass hawcstfng. Components are a small feller buncher for felling and bunching. and a chipper-forwarder that chips at the pile and transports the chips to roadside. In a case study on a mixed pine and hardwood site in Georgia after conventional hawesting, production rates and cost estimates for a prototype chfpperforwarder were developed. At a forwarding distance of 153 m the cost of chipping and fonrardfng was estimated to be between 515 and $25 per dry tonne depending on initial investment assumptions.
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