Technodiversity Glossary

The processor is a self-propelled machine which is designed to delimb and cut-cross felled trees into logs (buffer 31 to 33 or buffer 32 to 33). Alternatives which are commonly used in forestry for the sub-processes of delimbing and cross-cutting are the chainsaw as a tool, and the harvester as a machine.

The processor can handle multiple functions such as delimbing, measuring and cross-cutting or bunching, but the processor cannot fell trees. Therefore, the work of the processor follows the felling of the tree and is mainly performed on central places, where full trees are arriving, or on the forest road.

Processors were the technical stage before industry was able to build harvesters, Today the task of a harvester can be done by harvesters as well. Only in combination with cable yarders, we se specialized processors.  

The work with the processor is assigned to the mechanized (automatic) work.