44th International Symposium on Forestry Mechanisation: “Pushing the Boundaries with Research and Innovation in Forest Engineering”, October 9-13, 2011 in Graz, Austria.
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| Hulusi Acar; Saliha Ünver; M. Sinan Özkaya; Hülya Kiliç | Determination of efficiency of the forest skylines in Artvin Forest Region of Turkey |  |
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| Mauricio Acuna; Justin Skinnell; Tony Evanson; Rick Mitchell | Bunching with a self-levelling feller buncher on steep terrain for efficient yarder extraction | |
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| Mauricio Acuna; Mark Brown; Luke Mirowski | Improving forest transport efficiency through truck schedule optimization: a case study and software tool for the Austrialien industry | |
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| Kazuhiro Aruga; Kaname Ito; Ayami Murakami; Masashi Saito; Toshiaki Tasaka | Study on the planning method for circular forest road networks considering geographical features | |
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| Antti Asikainen; Perttu Anttila; Pieter J. Verkerk; O. Diaz; Dominik Röser | Development of forest machinery and labour in the EU in 2010-2030 | |
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Athanassiadis Dimitris; Lundström Anders; Nordfjell Tomas |
A regional-scale GIS-based Evaluation of the potential and supply costs of forest biomass in sweden | |
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| Helmer Belbo | A simulation approach to determine the potential efficiency in multi-tree felling and processing | |
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| Staffan Berg; Sima Mohtashami; Isabelle Bergkvist; Björn Löfgren | Soft logging: Avoiding damage to the soil and water | |
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| Isabelle Bergkvist; Niklas Fogdestam | Alternative forest management facilitates the harvest of bio-fuel in young stands | |
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| Hamish Berkett; Rien Visser | Using ground-based harvesting machinery on steep slopes; how steep can we go? | |
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| Teodors Blija | Soil preparation machinery and classification problems | |
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| Henrik Brokmeier | Effects of CTIS on fuel consumption | |
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| Mark Brown; Martin Strandgard; Mauricio Acuna; Damian Walsh; Rick Mitchell | Improving forest operations management through applied research | |
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| Gunnar Bygdén | GIS for operative support | |
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| Maksim Bykovskiy; Evgeniy Tikhomirov | Modelling decision-making process when choosing a import multifunctional logging equipment for the conditions of the Russian Federation | |
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| Raffaele Cavalli; Stefano Grigolato; Marco Pellegrini | The evolution of a mountain road network from the original war-use to the forest one and ist current management | |
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| Murat Demir; Ender Makineci; Merve Kartaloglu | Temporal variation of sedimentation on paved and unpaved forest roads in Belgrad forest, Istanbul | |
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| Fulvio Di Fulvio; Dan Bergström | Observations on the effects of rough-delimbing system costs in fuel wood thinning | |
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| Vasileios K. Drosos | Sustainable forest harvesting operations using digital methods | |
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| Vasileios K. Drosos | Comparison between orthophotomap data and management plan data for a mountainous forest area | |
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| Vasileios K. Drosos; Dimitrios E. Farmakis; Christos C. Stamatiou | Mapping and management of mountainous routes with GPS for sustainable development and management | |
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| Vasileios K. Drosos; Chrisovaladis Malesios; Konstantinos P. Soutsas | Planimetry reliability with GPS | |
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| Jirí Dvorák; Farshad Keivan Behjou | Performance standards of medium and high power forwarders | |
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| Mehmet Eker; Nevzat Ada | Developing criteria and indicator set for quality assessment of forest roads | |
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| Mehmet Eker; H. Oguz Çoban; Yunus Emre Önal | Using of Agricultural Tractors for Harvesting Operations in Turkish Forestry | |
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| Adrian Enache; Karl Stampfer | State of the art tools used in forest road network planning in a private forest district from Lower Austria | n/a | |
| Lars Eliasson; Torbjörn Brunberg; Hagos Lundström | Productivity when forwarding fresh and dried logging residues | |
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| Jörn Erler | Optimize your harvesting method | |
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| Fabio Fabiano; Enrico Marchi; Francesco Neri; Franco Piegai | Skyline tension analysis in yarding operation: cases studies in Italy | |
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| Yuri Gerasimov; Anton Sokolov | Wood supply chain optimization: Case studies of logging companies in Russia | |
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| Sotir Gluschkov; Erik Findeisen; Ivailo Markoff | Education of forest workers in Bulgaria | |
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| Werner Grosse | Efficiency in the production and preparation of biomass for energetic utilisation | |
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| Stéphane Grulois | Testing new tools and innovative operating systems for wood energy harvesting in French Alps | |
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| Jörg Hittenbeck; Heribert Jacke | Contact pressure allocation under bogie axles and tracked vehicles | |
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| Anders Møyner Eid Hohle | Energy consumption by energy wood supply | |
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| Franz Holzleitner; Karl Stampfer; Rien J.M. Visser | Utilization rates and cost factors in timber harvesting based on long-term machine data | |
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| Andy Horcher; Rien Visser | Using On-Board GPS to Identify Training Needs of Helicopter Pilots | |
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| Eugen Iordache | Opportunity to use small forest tractors at skidding in thinned stands in Romania | |
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| Takayuki Ito; Takumi Uemura | Automatic control for a self-propelled carriage to enable one-man cable yarding | |
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| Meghdad Jourgholami; Baris Majnounian | Harvesting systems in Hyrcanian forests, Iran; limitations and approaches | |
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| Meghdad Jourgholami; Baris Majnounian | Effects of ground-based skidding on Forest Soil in Hyrcanian Forest | |
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| Meghdad Jourgholami; Baris Majnounian | Residual stand damage following ground-based skidding operation (Case study: Kheyrud Forest) | |
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| Kalle Kärhä; Tore Högnäs; Aaron Petty; Arto Mutikainen; Heikki Pajuoja | Improving the cost-efficiency of small-diameter energy wood harvesting from early thinnings in Finland | |
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| Kalle Kärhä; Arto Kariniemi; Susanna Suortti; Asko Poikela; Timo Melkas; Heikki Pajuoja | Towards more effective application of multi-tree handling through educational video | |
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| Kalle Kärhä; Perttu Lahtinen; Juha Elo; Heikki Pajuoja | Machinery and Labour Force for Forest Biomass Production in 2020 in Finland | |
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| Kalle Kärhä; Heikki Pajuoja | Supply Systems of Forest Biomass in Finland | |
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| Tom Kent; Enda Coates | Monitoring the drying of residue bundles during storage in the forest and at a terminal in Ireland | |
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| Radomir Klvac | Pure energy ratio of logging residua processing | |
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| Christian Knobloch | Cost-effective short-wood logging cable way system for lowland stands | |
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| Andriy Kyy; Volodymyr Kyy; Bohdan Mahura | Ecologically sound means of primary timber transportation in complicated forest usage conditions | |
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| Juha Laitila | The cost calculators for sustainable procurement of logging residues, thinning | |
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| Sami Lamminen; Kari Väätäinen; Antti Asikainen | The importance of the forwarder operator in loading phase during virtual CTL-forwarding | |
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| Luc LeBel; Etienne St-Jean | Forest SME entrepreneurs: Toward a higher performance business model? | |
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| Kurt Leodolter | Occupational health aspects of forest work in steep terrain | |
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| Ola Lindroos; Ola Ringdahl; Thomas Hellström | Potentials of possible machine systems for directly loading logs in cut-to-length harvesting | |
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| Ola Lindroos; Iwan Wästerlund | Larger loads and decreased damage - The potentials of a new forwarding concept | |
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| Natascia Magagnotti; Raffaele Spinelli | Determining the effect of feedstock type on chipping productivity, fuel consumption and quality output | |
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| Paul Magaud | SIMULCABLE, a new software to optimise the line implantation for cable yarding | |
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| Marco Manzone; Paolo Balsari | Forestry use of the helicopter | |
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| Enrico Marchi; Natascia Magagnotti; Lisa Berretti; Francesco Neri; Raffaele Spinelli | Comparing Terrain and Roadside Chipping in Mediterranean Pine Salvage Cuts | |
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| Jurij Marence | With skidder and load down the skid trail - does in this case a slip of the wheel also influence the forest ground | |
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| Piotr S. Mederski; Mariusz Bembenek; Piotr Bandosz; Zbigniew Karaszewski | The impact of thinning intensity on forwarder loading | |
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| Tadeusz Moskalik; Magda Ostolska | Efficiency of energy chips production from logging residues by the Bandit 2090 | |
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| Masahiko Nakazawa; Masaki Jinkawa; Yuki Imatomi; Masahiro Mozuna; Chikashi Yoshida; Yuji Ikami; Hirofumi Kuboyama; Masahiro Iwaoka; Kuniaki Furukawa; Hisao Usuda; Yoshiyuki Kusano; Seiichiro Tanaka; Masami Morooka; Noboru Morooka | Improvement of a processor and forwarders for collecting logging residues | |
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| Carla Nati; Lars Eliasson; Raffaele Spinelli | Fuel consumption and productivity for two tractor-mounted chippers in relation to knife wear and raw material | |
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| Nikolaus Nemestóthy | Synthetic fibre ropes for forestry use - further developments in finding criteria for the replacement state of fibre ropes | |
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| Hrvoje Nevecerel; Kruno Lepoglavec; Ivica Papa; Dragutin Picman; Tibor Pentek | Development of a new computer program for designing forest roads | |
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| Toshio Nitami; Sooil Suk; Akito Kataoka; Taiji Mitsuyama | Tower Yarder Operation in Japan and the Performance Analysis by GPS-based system | |
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| Morten Nitteberg; Bruce Talbot | Developing a new yarder-controlled mechanical slack-pulling carriage for double-drum winches | |
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| Tomas Nordfjell; Dan Bergström; Rikard Wennberg; Julia Forsberg; Urban Bergsten | Geometric thinning for forest bioenergy | |
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| Eirik Nordhagen | The drying of wood chips with surplus heat from two hydroelectric plants in Norway | |
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| Yrjö Nuutinen; Kalle Kärhä; Juha Laitila; Paula Jylhä | Productivity and costs of whole-tree bundling system in early thinnings | |
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| Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo; Nils Olaf Kyllo; Bruce Talbot | The Owren Mini 400: A unique 1:3 scale electrically powered cable yarder for research, training and demonstration | |
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| Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo; Morten Nitteberg; Karl Stampfer; Bruce Talbot | Workload benefits of using synthetic ropes in cable yarder rigging in Norway | |
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| Karri Pasanen; Katja Lähtinen; Pekka Leskinen | Multidimensional sustainability framework to evaluate forest-based bioenergy systems | |
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| Gianni Picchi; Raffaele Spinelli; Laura Ivorra; Natascia Magagnotti; | Improvement of wood chips quality by means of a fontana mechanical sieve | |
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| Thomas Psilovikos; Kosmas Doukas; Vasileios K. Drosos | The contribution of forest roads to the forest fire protection | |
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| Thomas Purfürst; Ola Lindroos | Long-term productivity's correlation with short-term performance ratings of harvester operators | |
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| Juho Rantala; Heidi Hallongren; Veli-Matti Saarinen; Markus Strandström; Jarmo Hämäläinen; Asko Poikela | Competitiveness of mechanized silviculture in Nordic countries | n/a | n/a |
| Sandra Sànchez Garcia; Elena Canga Libano; Gianni Picchi; Carla Nati | Analysis of the procurement system of eucalyptus residues with bundling technology | |
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| Thomas Smaltschinski; Martin Opferkuch | Optimization of back freight transportation systems | |
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| Mathew Smidt | Logging injury and fatality surveillance in the USA | |
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| Anton Sokolov; Yuri Gerasimov | Ergonomic characterization of wood harvesting systems in Russia | |
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| Nils Egil Søvde; Arne Løkketangen; Magne Sætersdal | Optimizing terrain transportation with environmental constraints - Key habitats vs profit | |
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| Gheorghe Spârchez; Rudolf Derczeni; Eugen Iordache; Razvan Enache; Marius Mihaila | Damages inflicted to remaining trees, soil and regeneration in single - tree selection cuttings in mixed (coniferous and beech) stands from mountainous areas of Romania | |
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| Raffaele Spinelli; Natascia Magagnotti; Bruce Hartsough | Productivity norms for harvesters and processors used in Italy | |
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| Raffaele Spinelli; Natascia Magagnotti; Gianni Picchi | Determining the annual use, service life and value retention of CTL technology | |
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| Erwin Stampfer | Forest Engineering at the Austrian Federal Forests (ÖBf AG) | |
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| Igor Stankic; Tomislav Porsinsky; Ivica Tonkovic; Marko Frntic | Development and implementation of productivity norms for forwarders in Croatia | |
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| Martin Strandgard; Pierre Ackerman; Marco Pellegrini | Onboard computing in forest machinery - A perspective from Australia and South Africa | |
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| Oleg Styranivsky; Yuriy Hromyak; Yuriy Styranivsky | Argumentation of Optimum Road Density in the Forests of Ukraine | |
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| Marijan Šušnjar; Dubravko Horvat; Marko Zoric; Zdravko Pandur; Dinko Vusic; Željko Tomašic | Comparison or real axle loads and wheel pressure of truck units for wood transportation with legal restrictions | |
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| Hidenori Suzuki; Akira Ogura; Hisao Usuda; Satoshi Yamaguchi; Yoshiaki Tanaka | Calculation of Earthwork Volume Using Digital Elevation Model in Strip Road Construction: Influence of Terrain Complexity on Volume Error | |
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| Yutaro Takei; Chikara Nakahata; Reiko Yamaguchi; Kaname Ito; Ayami Murakami; Masashi Saito; Kazuhiro Aruga; Toshiaki Tasaka | Study of strength deterioration of wooden civil structures as a result of aging – A case study of wooden civil structures in Tochigi prefecture, Japan | |
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| Bruce Talbot; Morten Nitteberg | Using transloading times in determining the effect of reduced road standards on the delivered cost of timber | |
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| Eduardo Tolosana; Rubén Laina; Yolanda Ambrosio; M. Martín | Biomass recovery from Spanish pine plantations mechanised thinnings residues. Effects of biomass piling methods and top diameters | |
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| Petros A. Tsioras; Christian Rottensteiner; Karl Stampfer | Analysis of Accidents During Cable Yarding Operations in Austria 1998–2008 | |
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| Jori Uusitalo; Veli-Pekka Kivinen; Heikki Korpunen | A step towards optimal wood supply chain: A case study on optimal tree bucking in Central Finland | |
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| Kari Väätäinen; Rami Ylimäki; Sami Lamminen; Matti Siren; Jari Ala-Ilomäki; Antti Asikainen; Perttu Anttila | The potential of intelligent operator assisting systems in different phases of mechanized loggings | |
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| Tran Van Tuong; Gero Becker | Sustainability impact assessment (SIA) of alternative forest-wood supply chains (FWSCs) of natural forests in Vietnam | |
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| Rien Visser; Blair Tinnelly; Simon Fairbrother | Installation of Geogrid to improve forest roads construction | |
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| Reiko Yamaguchi; Kazuhiro Aruga; Ayami Murakami; Masashi Saito; Kaname Ito; Mayu Nagasaki | Development of a model to estimate annual supply potentials and available amounts of logging residues from profitable sub-compartments in Tochigi prefecture, Japan using forest management records | |
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| Tetsuhiko Yoshimura; Hirotaka Otsu; Bruce Hartsough | Developing and validating the automatic log transfer mechanism between two carriages | |
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| Takuyuki Yoshioka; Katsuaki Sugiura; Koki Inoue | Application of a sugarcane harvester for harvesting willow trees aimed at short rotation forestry -An experimental case study in Japan | |
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| Zeljko Zecic; Dinko Vusic; Dragan Milkovic; Marko Zoric | Skidder with single-drum or double-drum winch in mountainous areas - A case study from selective forests of Croatia | |
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| Giuseppe Zimbalatti; Andrea R. Proto | An assessment of potential forest biomass production for energy in South Italy | |
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