In-field demonstration program 2012
1. Forest establishment
2. Young stand tending
Pruning hardwood trees for quality improvement- Tending young stands on softwood dominated storm throw sites; presentation of treatment methods used in Baden-Württemberg
- Schematic tending procedures in young softwood stands using brushcutters
- Precision site preparation with a forestry mulcher
3. Low impact tree harvesting and energy wood production
3.1 Harvesting wood in level terrain
- Mechanised thin soft wood harvesting with tracked harvester and combination harvester head; skidding with forwarder
- Abtshagen hardwood procedure – motor-manual felling, yarding with horses, hauling with forwarder with rubber pads
- Standing extraction with tracked harvester in high-structure spruce stands; hauling with forwarder (940 mm tyres)
- Mechanised clearing of thick softwood on naturally regenerated sites using WoodMax tracked harvester; hauling with forwarder
- Mechanised thick softwood harvesting on naturally regenerated sites using thick wood harvester in the 60 ton class
- Low-impact motor-manual processing method for thick hardwood harvesting on vulnerable sites; hauling using an 8-wheel clam bunk skidder
3.2 Harvesting trees on slopes
- Motor-manual thick hardwood harvesting on transitional terrain (30 to 50 % slope gradients) using a special forest tractor and traction winch
- Motor-manual thick hardwood harvesting on slopes: motor-manual felling; yarding and skidding with cable yarder; skidding with grapple skidder; motor-manual processing
3.3 Energy wood production
- Generating optimum added value during the exploration and tending of softwood stands by bucking energy and industrial wood. Sorted felling and skidding using energy wood harwarder; chipping using remote-controlled trailer chipper or piling the industrial wood.
- Creating exploitation lines for woodchip production in new, unexploited hardwood stands: felling and placing trees using a tracked excavator with Westtech bundler head; hauling trees to chipper with forwarder; chipping using a mounted wood chipper
3.4 Safe harvesting, special felling procedures
- Thick hardwood arena: safe and damage-avoiding motor-manual wood harvesting in hardwood stands – work organisation and procedures
- Safe felling and processing of thick hardwood
- The escape route – my life insurance
- Using hydraulic felling devices professionally
- Felling with a winch, made easy (methods for winch-supported wood harvesting)
- Successfully harvesting trees on sites with natural regeneration
- A case in dispute – harvesting trees in full leaf
- Special felling procedures: Improving work safety by using a felling crane
4. Work safety, environmental compatibility, forest protection, logistics
- Work safety: Container-grown plants – productivity, effort and body posture; in-depth analysis of two procedures for planting container-grown plants compared to planting conventionally grown seedlings.
- Environmental compatibility and work safety: old and dead wood concept Baden-Württemberg
- Environmental compatibility: the biomass/wood ash cycle and liming concepts for improving soil properties – strategy and operative implementation
- Environmental compatibility: tree harvesting on slopes: minimising soil erosion by using traction winches
- Environmental compatibility: Soil conservation and site adapted wood harvesting procedures – crucial recommendations from the State Forestry Office Brandenburg
- Environmental compatibility: EFFICIENT20, EU-funded initiative, reducing fuel consumption in forest machine operations
- Mechanical forest protection – necessary or dispensable part of forestry; protective measures in comparison
- Forest protection : Root rot – damage prevention by fully mechanised stump treatment with biological preparations
- Logistics: instruments of raw wood supply logistics (sScale-system,wet storage model, results from current research projects)
- Logistics: QS Harvester using standardised control routines
- Logistics: measuring wood piles using Visiosens - measuring device
