State and development of mechanizing timber harvest and constribution to increasing efficiency in the state forest enterprise of Lower Saxony [Annual meeting paper]
1998
Behrndt, W.
The regional forestry administration of Lower Saxony implemented highly-mechanized thinnings of coniferous wood in the forestry business year (Oct. 1 - Sept. 30) of 1987. Since then, the program has been steadily expanded. In 1997, 450 000 cbm were processed mechanically, which is about 30 % of the total fellings. According to plan, approximately twothirds of the total was harvested by contractors and the remaining third with the owner's machinery. Mechanized timber harvesting, together with further economizing, considerably reduced the manual and motorized manual workload. These complementary activites resulted in significantly reduced company costs for wages, including auxiliary wage costs, materials and contractors' commissions. In detail, the following provides especial contributions: Continual adjustments in personnel - Furtherance of personnel by intensified training and improved mobility - Development work of the administrations's regional forestry offices, which also are well-equipped with machinery - Practical training with the assistance of the brochures "Highly-mechanized thinnings of coniferous wood" and "environmentally-compatible use of machinery" - Including forestry contractors. - Moreover, the mechanization of timber harvests has contributed to ergonomical improvement and to a reduction in the number of accidents occuring during timber harvesting. Mechanical timber harvesting should, therefore, continue to be expanded. - Future development work will not only be restricted to individual subsectors and technical progress. Efforts must be focused on the complexity of operational organization and range from machinery, data processing and transmission - including information and communication technologies (GIS and GPS) - up to delivering the timber to factories.
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