Use of small-scale harvesting equipment in forestry is increasing in many regions of the
world and tractor-based systems are the most common type of small-scale forestry …

Farm tractors are very popular in Poland and other European countries. When coupled with
trailers equipped with a crane with a grapple, they are also used, especially in easily …

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. Farm tractors can …

Due to global advancement of technology in forest operations, utilization of advanced
machineries such as grapple skidder (GS) in timber harvesting has been increasing in the …

Productivity assessment studies are essential in forest operations, mainly because their
results enable operational planning and rate setting, the development of equitable payment …

Farm tractors represent a possible option for forwarding operations in continuous cover
forestry, given the generally lower removal intensities, relatively high dispersion of timber …

Skidding in peat swamp plantation forest requires high skill and alertness, particularly in
relation to peat damage, which includes subsidence as such a damage. The objective of this …

In Turkey, mechanized harvesting methods have started to be used depending on the recent
developments in forest industry, but advanced harvesting machines could not be used in …

Timber harvesting in Poland is increasingly often performed using the cut− to− length
method. This method has been commonly applied for many years in Scandinavia (Nurminen …

Farm tractor+ trailers play a key role in wood transportation after forests are logged. Despite
of the fact that a forwarder is a forestry vehicle that carries felled logs for shorter distances off …