Technodiversity Glossary

The chip method is one of four different functional groups of harvesting methods. The others are fulltree, tree length and cut-to-length method.

With chip methods, the wood is chipped before it reaches the forest road.

The two most common alternatives are:

An integrated feller-chipper (a) fells the trees and chips them in a single pass. Chips are blown into a container, carried by the feller-chipper or by an auxiliary vehicle. Or the trees are felled, moved to the trail and chipped there (b).

(See more at TDiv PR1-B07)