An examination of the current slope gradients being experienced by ground-based forest machines in New Zealand plantation forests.
Harvesting is typically one of the largest cost components within a plantation forest rotation. A large proportion of New Zealand’s future harvest will be on steep terrain. Currently steep terrain harvesting is characterised by lower productivity and higher cost. It also has higher levels of manual...
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University of Canterbury. School of Forestry
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10732 |