Efficiency of Timber jack 450C with different loading volumes in different slopes

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 3668-3672

  Lotfalian, Majid ^a,b   Daliri, Hasan Sam ^a   Kooch, Yahya ^a  

^a SARI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b University of Mazandaran Faculty of Natural Resources   (Iran)

Author keywords

Langa; Loaded traveline time; Loading volume; Skidding; Slope; Timber jack 450C

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049037934     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3668.3672     Document Type: Article

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