Costs and environmental impacts of harvesting timber in Appalachia with a truck-mounted crane
Year: 1980
Type: report
Abstract: A truck-mounted crane was used to yard and load timber from a 30-acre sale in a 140-acre watershed in the mountains s f north-central West Virginia.A total logging cost, excluding road costs, of $4$.35/M bm for logs delivered t o a mill 20 miles away was comparable t o that reported for wheeled skidders.Road costs with gravel would add $55/M bm, without gravel $26/M bm.Roads built to these standards held sediment production within the range (0.05 to 0.10 ton/acre/year) expected for undisturbed forested watersheds.Residual stand damage caused by this system was also comparable t o other systems and was concentrated on small trees.
DOI: 10.2737/ne-rp-456
Authors: J. N. Kochenderfer, G. W. Wendel
Institution: US Forest Service
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanics of Materials
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W655958868