Wood Extraction with Farm Tractor and Sulky: Estimating Productivity, Cost and Energy Consumption

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-85

  Spinelli, Raffaele ^a   Magagnotti, Natascia ^a  

^a CNR IVALSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Energy consumption; Farm forestry; Productivity; Skidding

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY USE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MACHINERY; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; WOOD;

EID: 84857796749     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-011-9169-8     Document Type: Article

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