Harvesting alternatives for mallee agroforestry plantations in Western Australia

Raffaele Spinelli; Mark W Brown; Rick Giles; Dan Huxtable; Ruben Laina Relano; Natascia Magagnotti

doi:10.1007/s10457-014-9707-4

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Harvesting alternatives for mallee agroforestry plantations in Western Australia

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Harvesting alternatives for mallee agroforestry plantations in Western Australia

Raffaele Spinelli, Mark W Brown, Rick Giles, Dan Huxtable, Ruben Laina Relano and Natascia Magagnotti

Agroforestry Systems, Vol.88(3), pp.479-487

2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-014-9707-4

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alley-cropping

belts

mechanization

economics

energy

chips

The authors tested two harvesting systems especially designed for mallee agroforestry plantations on farmland. Both systems were based on versatile forest technology commonly used for conventional logging operations. They differed especially for the felling technology: small-scale drive-to-tree or industrial swing-to-tree equipment. Both systems were tested side-to-side on 12 experimental plots each. The resulting harvesting cost was 22 and 27 AU$ t-1, for the industrial and the small scale system, respectively. Chipping represented between 60 and 80 % of the overall harvesting cost, and offered much room for improvement. The industrial system always offered the lowest harvesting cost, regardless of annual usage, when equipment mobilisation costs were not considered. The productivity of conventional forestry equipment was strongly dependent on belt stocking and tree size. If the diameter at ankle height dropped below 10 cm, economic viability decreased very rapidly.

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Title: Harvesting alternatives for mallee agroforestry plantations in Western Australia
Authors: Raffaele Spinelli (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Mark W Brown (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Rick Giles (Author) - Department of Parks and Wildlife, Australia
Dan Huxtable (Author) - Department of Parks and Wildlife, Australia
Ruben Laina Relano (Author) - Ciudad Universitaria, Spain
Natascia Magagnotti (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Publication details: Agroforestry Systems, Vol.88(3), pp.479-487
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date published: 2014
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-014-9707-4
ISSN: 0167-4366
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449085902621
Output Type: Journal article

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