A short review of cable yarding applications in Australia

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 47 - 51, 29.06.2019

Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan

https://doi.org/10.33904/ejfe.473061

Cited By: 2

Abstract

The current
technology in Australia is mainly large swing tower yarder with grapple. These
yarders operate under whole tree or cut-to-length methods in steep terrains of
Victoria, Tasmania and South-East Queensland. Cable yarding is often applied in
clear fell operations in pine or Eucalypt stands in Australia. Felling
operations prior to yarding are carried out manually or using tracked
feller-bunchers. Typical terrains for applying cable yarding have slope larger
than 30°. There is currently a lack of small to medium size cable yarders that
can efficiently operates under different circumstances. Medium size capacity
yarders would be required to handle a wide range of situations under uphill and
downhill extractions while small capacity highly mobile yarders will be needed
for clean-up operations.

Keywords

Cable yarding, Yarders, Timber harvesting, Productivity, Steep terrains

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