Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia
Roadside chipping is a common harvesting system to produce chips in Australian plantations. This study investigated the productivity and cost of road-side chipping operation (chipping logs extracted by forwarder to the road side) using a Morbark chipper with flail delimber in a first thinning of Pin...
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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry
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| description | Roadside chipping is a common harvesting system to produce chips in Australian plantations. This study investigated the productivity and cost of road-side chipping operation (chipping logs extracted by forwarder to the road side) using a Morbark chipper with flail delimber in a first thinning of Pinus radiata stands. An elemental time study method was used to collect the time working cycles. The regression approach was used to develop the productivity predicting model based on the log size in different wood piles. The statistical analysis yielded an average productivity of 59.4 GMt/PMH with the corresponding costs of 5.2 AU$/GMt for the Morbark chipper. The details on work time analysis, relocation time and fuel consumption of the machine are documented in this paper. The results provide basic information for planning roadside chipping operations in pine plantations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41182d2897504efdb7a9a49f05f628af2022-12-22T03:44:17ZengUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of ForestryCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering1845-57191848-96722013-01-0134191101116732Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South AustraliaJohn Sessions0Mark Brown1Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan2Oregon State University Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management Peavy Hall 204 OR 97331-5706 Corvallis USAUniversity of the Sunshine Coast Locked Bag 4 4558 Maroochydore, Queensland AUSTRALIAUniversity of the Sunshine Coast Private Bag 12 7001 Hobart AUSTRALIARoadside chipping is a common harvesting system to produce chips in Australian plantations. This study investigated the productivity and cost of road-side chipping operation (chipping logs extracted by forwarder to the road side) using a Morbark chipper with flail delimber in a first thinning of Pinus radiata stands. An elemental time study method was used to collect the time working cycles. The regression approach was used to develop the productivity predicting model based on the log size in different wood piles. The statistical analysis yielded an average productivity of 59.4 GMt/PMH with the corresponding costs of 5.2 AU$/GMt for the Morbark chipper. The details on work time analysis, relocation time and fuel consumption of the machine are documented in this paper. The results provide basic information for planning roadside chipping operations in pine plantations.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/172581 |
| spellingShingle | John Sessions Mark Brown Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering |
| title | Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia |
| title_full | Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia |
| title_fullStr | Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia |
| title_short | Roadside Chipping in a First Thinning Operation for Radiata Pine in South Australia |
| title_sort | roadside chipping in a first thinning operation for radiata pine in south australia |
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