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dc.contributor.authorSpinelli, Raffaele
dc.contributor.authorMagagnotti, Natascia
dc.contributor.authorDe Francesco, Fabio
dc.contributor.authorKováč, Barnabáš
dc.contributor.authorHeger, Patrik
dc.contributor.authorHeilig, Dávid
dc.contributor.authorHeil, Bálint
dc.contributor.authorKovács, Gábor
dc.contributor.authorZemánek, Tomáš
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-31T00:04:27Z
dc.date.available2023-08-31T00:04:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn1999-4907 Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozitar.mendelu.cz/xmlui/handle/20.500.12698/1763
dc.description.abstractPlantation forestry has a long history in Europe and still supports local industry, generating employment, improving environmental quality, and mitigating climate change. As part of these plantations, medium-rotation poplars (5-8 years) provide good quality logs for fiber production, and the branches and tops can be converted into green energy. Finding a cost-effective harvesting system for this plantation is challenging due to the small tree size and the need for log production, which prevents whole-tree chipping. To verify the economic benefit of using small mechanized cut-to-length (CTL) technology, four different CTL chains were tested in western Slovakia. All chains tested consisted of a harvester and a forwarder. Each machine had a skilled operator and was timed while cutting and processing (or forwarding) eight experimental sample plots. Sample plots were randomly assigned to each treatment, and each one covered an area between 0.08 and 0.10 ha (120-170 trees). Harvester productivity ranged from 2.2 to 4.2 bone-dry tons per scheduled machine hour (BDT SMHMINUS SIGN 1), and harvester cost from EUR 11 to EUR 22 BDTMINUS SIGN 1. Forwarding productivity and cost ranged from EUR 2.0 to 4.5 BDT SMHMINUS SIGN 1 and from EUR 9 to 20 BDTMINUS SIGN 1. Total harvesting costs ranged between EUR 26 and 36 BDTMINUS SIGN 1. Choosing a smaller harvester is preferable due to the small tree size, which caps productivity regardless of a machine's intrinsic potential. Furthermore, small harvesters and forwarders are lighter on the ground, which can be a valuable asset on the many wet sites planted with poplar.en
dc.format1478
dc.publisherMDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI)
dc.relation.ispartofForests
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/f13091478
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectharvesteren
dc.subjectforwarderen
dc.subjecttime studyen
dc.subjectproductivityen
dc.subjectcosten
dc.titleCut-to-Length Harvesting Options for the Integrated Harvesting of the European Industrial Poplar Plantationsen
dc.typeJ_ČLÁNEK
dc.date.updated2023-08-31T00:04:27Z
dc.description.versionOA
local.identifier.doi10.3390/f13091478
local.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85138494857
local.identifier.wos000857594100001
local.number9
local.volume13
local.identifier.obd43923427
local.identifier.e-issn1999-4907
dc.identifier.orcidZemánek, Tomáš 0000-0003-1693-2630
local.contributor.affiliationLDF


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