Harvest traffic with heavy equipment causes damage to forest soils. Whereas increased soil damage has been reported with increasing harvest equipment traffic and on increasing slope gradients, it is unclear how much soil damage is caused by different directions of skidding. We examined the effects of traffic frequency, skid trail slope and skidding direction on the dry bulk density and total po...

The Amazon rainforest covers an area of about 50% the Brazilian national territory, which consists mainly upland rainforests that are generally poorly managed, because low investment in technology, planning, operations and manufacturing. Logging activities require a large contingent heavy machinery intense physical workload from operators crews. thermal comfort at work tropical regions is betwe...

In the Shafaroud forest, logging operation is generally performed by using selective cutting methods. Chainsaw and cable skidder are two main forest machines for harvesting of this forest. However, forest harvesting operations result in serious residual stand damage during felling, winching and skidding operations in this forest. Residual stand damage resulting from selective cutting was asses...

Nacrtak In Italy, where conventional forests have a protective rather than productive purpose, some silvicultural operations as first and second thinning could be carried out in an economic way adopting systems based on small scale mechanization. Authors tested a system based on small scale mechanization for bunching and skidding operations, using an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV), a compact, agile ...

logging operations is an engineering system with the aim of maximizing efficiency and minimizing negative effects. this study was carried out in two compartments including 220 and 225 in namkhaneh district of kheiroudkenar watershed. in this study, damages resulted from skidding operation by timber jack 450c were evaluated. the results of this study showed that in two compartments 220 and 225, ...

Physical barriers such as roads cause to decrease fire distribution through reducing fire speed and increasing accessibility to affected area and control fire. In this research it is necessary to (i) predict forest fire risk zones and (ii) simulation skidding routes in order to access of fire controller teams to risk zones. For this propuse, skidding routes was simulated through FORENG 1.0 soft...

Farm tractor skidding is one of the common methods of timber extraction in Turkey. However, the absence of an optimal skidding plan covering the entire production area can result in time loss and negative environmental impacts. In this study, the timber extraction by farm tractors was analyzed, and a new skid trail pattern design was developed using Linear Programming (LP) and Geographical Info...

Nacrtak Mechanized felling was introduced in Slovenia at the beginning of this decade, and before that Slovenian forestry relied on motor manual felling and tractor skidding or cable crane yarding. In this research we are dealing with wood forwarding. Model skidding maps were built, using terrain classification and decision support systems for forwarders and tractor trailers. The purpose of thi...

Farm tractors have been applied in forest operations to carry out several tasks such as tree/felling/process-ing, forwarding, loading, skidding and cable yarding. can be equipped with special logging equipment that allows for their safe efficient work the harvesting of stands. This research is aimed collect review available literary sources on productivity farm during operations. The study resu...

in the shafaroud forest, logging operation is generally performed by using selective cutting methods. chainsaw and cable skidder are two main forest machines for harvesting of this forest. however, forest harvesting operations result in serious residual stand damage during felling, winching and skidding operations in this forest. residual stand damage resulting from selective cutting was assess...