Short rotation forestry harvesting - systems and costs

All production harvesting of single stem plantations is conducted with conventional forestry equipment. In the west, fellerbunchers. borapple skidders, chain fail delimber/debarker/chippers are used, and pulp furnish is transported in chip vans. Residues are cornminuted. and transported to energy facilities. In the Southeast. felled and bunched trees are deiimbed by skidders with irongate delimbers, and hauled to the pulp mill or a chipping plant in tree length form, where they are drum debarked and then chipped. Limbs and foliage are left on site.