Cost and Productivity of Multi-Product Processing for Small Diameter Trees : Final Report.
This project evolved from an effort by the land manager, the United States Forest Service, to economically deal with thousands of acres of thick (doghair) Douglas-fir and hemlock forests on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. These forests are very densely stocked and the trees are small. Until this effort, there has been no reasonable way to get enough product from the sites to justify managing them. And, even this project required some special agreements between the landowner and the investigator to be viable. This report describes the in-woods processing system now working in doghair stands on the Quilcene District. As whole trees arrive at the landing, they are sorted by a Cat 225 shovel-type loader. Sawlogs are trimmed, limbed, bucked, and decked for transportation on conventional log trucks. Chip grade trees are passed through a prototype, multi-stem debarker/delimber and then chipped by a Morbark 23'' Chiparvester. Clean chips are transported in regular highway chip vans. All other materials, not sold as logs or clean chips, are processed by a prototype shredder, and taken from the site as hogfuel. 7 ref., 15 figs., 11 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG79-85BP26139
- OSTI ID:
- 6981727
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BP-26139-1; ON: DE88008506
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Cover title: Cost and productivity of multiple-product processing equipment for small diameter trees.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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