News Articles - February 2014

“Vibration and noise assessment of tractor-trailer and truck-mounted chippers”

“Performance, capability and costs of motor-manual tree felling in Hyrcanian hardwood forest”

“The primary forest fuel supply chain: A literature review”

“The cutting productivity in integrated harvesting of pulpwood and delimbed energy wood with a forestry-equipped peat harvesting tractor”

“Work ability index of forest machine operators and some ergonomic aspects of their work”

“Stem taper estimates based on airborne laser scanning and cut-to-length harvester measurements for pre-harvest planning”

“Forest road access decisions for woods chip trailers using ant colony optimization and breakeven analysis”

A feller buncher long boom option and a knuckleboom loader circular saw option are now available.

New D51i-22 dozer from Komatsu

Hiab restructures its operations in Hudiksvall, Sweden

Vermeer makes improvements to their SC362 stump cutter

Ponsse Scorpion scoops another award

All new heads from Komatsu Forest will have standardised names.

FPInnovations helps us find the answer to this question.

Teagasc has published a simple manual to explain first thinning to small growers.

Three different methods were used on piles of logging residue.