Forest Harvesting

Forest accessibility is the set of work that must be performed to harvest the wood. The activities of forest harvesting and transportation represent significant share of total production costs, any project of forest accessibility, apart from their size, should be done carefully to meet the necessities and for the optimization of production.

The forest harvesting contrary to what many think is not restricted only to the act of knocking down a tree, it comprises a range of activities from felling to loading the wood to its final destination. The activities for the transport of wood are closely associated with the traffic conditions of roads, whether the forest road meshes or vicinal and paved roads. The modernization of the load transport vehicles has benefited the forest modal by the introduction of vehicles with more power and load capacity optimizing the transport activity.

According to the different forest patterns, the consumer’s need, the use and cultivation of wood-producer region, the topographic, soil and climate features it can be adopted different systems of harvesting. In general the harvesting systems consider the activities of felling, delimbing, plotting, trim, skidding, loading and unloading as targets of the best solution. The analysis for decision about harvesting systems is complex and usually follows the following steps: Situation and ways; cartography; use purpose characterization, production planning in the stand, densities of the current and necessary road mesh, calculation of the distances of dragging, measuring of the production module, description of needs, storage areas, description of the current and built improvements, composition of tabulated costs, prediction of the duration of the project in months.

The Fenix Consulting & Research, in this important area of forest engineering, whether for conventional projects that enable small and medium sized harvesting structures, or for high forest productivity, is qualified and offers management services and execution of wood harvesting programs within the principles of socio-environmental and technical operations responsibility.

Our commitment and of all professionals involved in this theme is the development of works focused on the optimization of the contractors results and for the socio-environmental security of the programs.