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Productivity and Cutting Costs of Thinning Harvesters

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Pages 43-56 | Published online: 18 Jun 2013

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Mattias Eriksson & Ola Lindroos. (2014) Productivity of harvesters and forwarders in CTL operations in northern Sweden based on large follow-up datasets. International Journal of Forest Engineering 25:3, pages 179-200.
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Aaron Petty & Kalle Kärhä. (2014) Productivity and cost evaluations of energy-wood and pulpwood harvesting systems in first thinnings. International Journal of Forest Engineering 25:1, pages 37-50.
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Muhammad Alam, Damian Walsh, Martin Strandgard & Mark Brown. (2014) A log-by-log productivity analysis of two Valmet 475EX harvesters. International Journal of Forest Engineering 25:1, pages 14-22.
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Patrick Hiesl & JeffreyG. Benjamin. (2013) A multi-stem feller-buncher cycle-time model for partial harvest of small-diameter wood stands. International Journal of Forest Engineering 24:2, pages 101-108.
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Fulvio Di Fulvio & Dan Bergström. (2013) Analyses of a single-machine system for harvesting pulpwood and/or energy-wood in early thinnings. International Journal of Forest Engineering 24:1, pages 2-15.
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Rien Visser & Raffaele Spinelli. (2012) Determining the shape of the productivity function for mechanized felling and felling-processing. Journal of Forest Research 17:5, pages 397-402.
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G Hogg, R Pulkki & P Ackerman. (2011) Excavator-based processor operator productivity and cost analysis in Zululand, South Africa. Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 73:2, pages 109-115.
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F. Thomas Purfürst & Jörn Erler. (2011) The Human Influence on Productivity in Harvester Operations. International Journal of Forest Engineering 22:2, pages 15-22.
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