Plantation forests are established, and expanding, to satisfy increasing global demand for
timber products. Shifting societal values, such as safety, productivity, environmental, quality …

The feasibility of reliably generating bioenergy from forest biomass waste is intimately linked
to supply chain and production processing costs. These costs are, at least in part, directly …

Sažetak The EU's climate and energy framework and Energy Efficiency Directive drive
European companies to improve their energy efficiency. In Finland, the aim is to achieve …

Sažetak Operating forest machines is not only expensive but accurate monitoring of
economic variables can be very difficult. Detailed machine data capture of economic …

A study was conducted on 5 different plots to compare the performance of traditional and
mechanized operations. The test plots were considered representative of conifer plantations …

Techno-economically reasonable mechanization of tree planting has proved to be a difficult
task in the Nordic working conditions. Although planting machines and combinations of base …

The authors tested two mini-yarders, one for uphill and the other for downhill extraction. The
two machines were modern commercial models, offering state-of-the-art yarding technology …

Animal traction has supported humans in most field operations since the origin of
agriculture. With the introduction of mechanization, humans gained access to much more …

Sažetak In the area of Croatian lowland forests, forwarders are usually used for extraction of
timber assortments. Within the project» Systematization of norms for the production of timber …

Within the last decades ecological and environmental dimensions were in the focus of
Chinese forestry and forest research, but forest operations were much less studied …