TY - RPRT TI - A combimachine for harvesting of small sized trees; Pienpuun keraeilykaatoon perustuvan harvennuskoneen kehittaeminen AB - The goal of the project was to develop a combimachine suitable for the harvesting of small sized trees in first thinning. The use of such a machine could considerably decrease harvesting costs in first thinning. The basic idea with the combimachine is, that the same machine both fells the trees and transports the timber to roadside storages. A forwarder was equipped with a lightweight felling device, which also can do the crosscutting and loading. When harvesting undelimbed timber the forwarder could be equipped with a load-compressing device. During the spring 1995 a trial was made with a combimachine in a first thinning stand of pine. An ordinary forwarder was equipped with the `Naarva-grapple` a device for felling, crosscutting and loading. The aim was to test how the felling device is working, to examine time expenditure for two different working methods and to collect data for the further development of the machine. The trial showed a need to add a delimbing feature to the Naarva-grapple. The need for delimbing is based on the fact, obtained during the trial, that productivity in transport of delimbed timber was over 30 % higher than in transport of undelimbed pieces. A device capable of delimbing was designed, and it was ready for a prototype test in December 1995. The idea worked, but also showed a lot of details which have to be redesigned, before the device is ready for manufacturing and marketing AU - "Lilleberg, R [Metsaeteho, Helsinki (Finland)]" KW - "09 BIOMASS FUELS" KW - "HARVESTING EQUIPMENT" KW - "WOOD" KW - "BIOMASS" KW - "DESIGN" KW - "FORESTRY" KW - "ECONOMICS" KW - "HARVESTING" DO - https://doi.org/ UR - https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/419157 PB - CY - Finland PY - 1996 DA - 1997-12-31 LA - Finnish J2 - [] VL - C1 - VTT Energy, Jyvaeskylae (Finland). Biofuels C2 - C3 - VTT-BIOENERGIA-11-Pt.1 C4 - C5 - OSTI as DE97722471 L3 - Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Bioenergy Research Programme, Yearbook 1995. Production of wood fuels; Alakangas, E. [ed.]; PB: 332 p.; Bioenergian tutkimusohjelma, vuosikirja 1995. Puupolttoaineen tuotantotekniikka ER -