Metla Project 8508

Comparison of Harvesting Methods - Impacts on Wood Quality and Overall Performance of Wood Harvesting Companies

Duration: 2006-2008   Keywords: Russia, tree-length method, wood harvesting, wood quality
Research project group: Developing Forest Sector in Russia and Central and East European Countries - Impacts in Finland

Objectives

The general objective of the project is to enhance the preconditions of cross-border business partnership of Russian and Finnish companies in wood harvesting, harvesting machine manufacture and wood processing. The specific objective is to provide information on the advantages and disadvantages of two different wood harvesting methods.

The Nordic cut-to-length and Russian tree-length methods will be compared to analyse them in terms of impacts on wood quality and overall performance of wood harvesting companies. The goal is to provide information to Russian harvesting companies to support their decision making on the selection of harvesting methods and to give harvesting machine manufacturers scientifically justified arguments for marketing their technology in Russian conditions.

Activities of the project can be divided into four parts:

• Comparison of the harvesting methods will be done by collecting empirical field data on the impacts of Russian and Nordic harvesting methods on 1) wood quality, 2) work safety and ergonomics, 3) economical productivity and 4) environment.
• Results of the field study will be combined in a publication in Russian language directed to harvesting companies. The aim of the publication is to provide companies with objective information about the two harvesting methods.
• Results obtained from the study will contribute to further development of the Russian forestry information service www.idanmetsatieto.info.
• A training need assessment will be made to harvesting companies to chart the most urgent training needs of company employees.

Project leader: Karvinen, Sari
The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Office, PL 68, FI-80101 JOENSUU, FINLAND
Phone: +358 29 532 3256
E-mail: sari.karvinen@metla.fi

Other researchers: Gerasimov, Yury, JO (2008), Välkky, Elina (2008)

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Updated 12.06.2012
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