Productivity of rubber-tired skidders in southern pine forests

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 53-58

  Kluender, R ^a   Lortz, D ^a   Mccoy, W ^a   Stokes, B ^b   Klepac, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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