Habip Eroglu
Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Katkas Umversity, Artvin, Turkey
H. Hulusi Acar
Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Harvesting and transportation of woods from forest is extremely difficult, expensive and time-consuming issue. Forests are usually found in Artvin region in high and steep slopes of mountainous areas and this increases the cost of harvesting. For logging operations, Koller K 300 and URUS M III mobile skylines, MB Trac 900 forest tractor and AcarOLUKPeF50/600 polyethylene chute are used commonly in Artvin region. In this study, three logging techniques (two models skyline system, plastic chute, forest tractors) have been compared for productive and ecological aspects. The productivity of Koller K 300, URUS M III, MB Trac 900 and AcarOLUKPeF50/600 plastic chute were determined as 4.791, 6.734, 6.328 m3/h and 42.86 stere/h (29.00 m3/h), respectively. It was concluded that AcarOLUKPeF50/600 can be used efficiently to extract small logs and/or short pieces of wood in Artvin forestry, Turkey.
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Habip Eroglu and H. Hulusi Acar, 2007. The Comparison of Logging Techniques for Productivity and Ecological Aspects in Artvin, Turkey. Journal of Applied Sciences, 7: 1973-1976.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.1973.1976
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2007.1973.1976
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.1973.1976
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2007.1973.1976
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- Eroglu, H., H.H. Acar, M.S. Ozkaya and F. Tilki, 2007. Using plastic chutes for extracting small logs and short pieces of wood from forests in Artvin, Turkey. Build. Environ., 42: 3461-3465.
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