Technodiversity Glossary

Trees are felled and delimbed with a harvester, but trees are not crosscut (generally with the intention of postponing bucking at a better facility in order to maximize value recovery)

Functiogram:

• Safer compared with motor-manual operations
• Faster compared with mechanized harvesting of short logs in clearcuts
• Possibility to work on ghost trails and increase distance between skid trails (where ghost trails are allowed)

• Tree-lengths are less maneuverable than short logs
• Higher potential for residual stand damage, esp. during subsequent extraction

• Plantation forestry, often associated with the use of centralized processing yards

Economic suitability:

example:

• machine costs without personal costs: 160,00 Euro/h
• personal costs per person: 35,00 Euro/h
• number of persons: 1
• in total: 195,00 Euro/h
• regression line minutes per tree
  • b₀ = 1,0
  • b₁ (tree volume) = 1,0 

Ecological suitability:

Ecograms 

Social suitability:

• S-class: no contact with forest road -> S5
• E-class: advanced machine work -> E4