A Comparison between Tractor Based and Skyline Based Mechanized Systems for Timber

Abstract

Selecting the best fit technological system for timber harvesting and logging represents a difficult task, which, at a given time, involves technical and economical decisions. In the case of integral, non-fragmented logging lines, differentiation between different logging-yarding means could involve economic and economic aspects. But in order to establish the differences between the applied technologies, the latter have to work in similar conditions. In this context, the presented paper describes, under technical and economic aspects the differences and the limits between two fully mechanized logging systems, one based on tractors and another based on skylines (cable-yarders).