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Work productivity assessment of small forwarders in forest operations: An international review
Silva Balcanica, Vol.23(2), pp.55-68
2022
Abstract
There are two types of forwarders available in the practice including conventional forestry forwarders and farm tractors equipped with a trailer/grapple loader that operate as a forwarder. Forwarders loading capacity can vary depending on the machine size. This paper aimed to review the work productivity of small size forwarders (payload3/PMH0. Main variables impacting the productivity of small forwarders included forwarding distance, load volume, piece volume, number of logs per turn, season, operator skills and harvesting intensity. This report has summarised recommendations from literatures on proper application of small forwarders to improve harvesting efficiency which can be of use to the forest industrial and academic users for practical and research purposes.
Details
- Title
- Work productivity assessment of small forwarders in forest operations: An international review
- Authors
- Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Forest Industries Research Centre
- Publication details
- Silva Balcanica, Vol.23(2), pp.55-68
- Publisher
- Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite, Forest Research Institute
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.3897/silvabalcanica.23.e91143
- ISSN
- 2815-2549; 1311-8706
- Copyright note
- © Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99695598502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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