Harvest traffic with heavy equipment causes damage to forest soils. Whereas increased soil damage has been reported with increasing harvest equipment traffic and on increasing slope gradients, it is unclear how much soil damage is caused by different directions of skidding. We examined the effects of traffic frequency, skid trail slope and skidding direction on the dry bulk density and total po...

Physical barriers such as roads cause to decrease fire distribution through reducing fire speed and increasing accessibility to affected area and control fire. In this research it is necessary to (i) predict forest fire risk zones and (ii) simulation skidding routes in order to access of fire controller teams to risk zones. For this propuse, skidding routes was simulated through FORENG 1.0 soft...

Farm tractor skidding is one of the common methods of timber extraction in Turkey. However, the absence of an optimal skidding plan covering the entire production area can result in time loss and negative environmental impacts. In this study, the timber extraction by farm tractors was analyzed, and a new skid trail pattern design was developed using Linear Programming (LP) and Geographical Info...

Nacrtak Mechanized felling was introduced in Slovenia at the beginning of this decade, and before that Slovenian forestry relied on motor manual felling and tractor skidding or cable crane yarding. In this research we are dealing with wood forwarding. Model skidding maps were built, using terrain classification and decision support systems for forwarders and tractor trailers. The purpose of thi...

Nacrtak In Turkey ground base skidding method is frequently used to extract log material. Physical damages occurring on the skidded log during ground based skidding cause quality and quantity loss of the log. This damage is formed by the ground structure, mass of transported logs, friction coefficient and skidding distance. In this study to improve a »Damage Prediction Model« means to predict t...

Based on heavy aircraft main landing gear tires touchdown skidding process, patents have been registered since the 1940s to improve tire safety, decrease the substantial wear and smoke that results from every landing by spinning the rear wheels before touchdown. A single wheel has been modeled as a mass-spring-damper system using ANSYS mechanical transient simulation to analyze static and pre-r...

Determining the efficient density for forest roads is essential to decrease the costs of skidding and road constructing in forestry plans. In order to estimate the optimal density for road network in Dalak kheyl forest district (Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries), we calculated the roading costs and hourly costs of Timber jack 450C and HSM 904 skidders. The length of skid trails was measured...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) on the frequency and severity of accidents. ESC is an active safety device for motor vehicles which enhances controllability by preventing skidding in cases of oversteering or understeering. Skidding occurs when speed, steering input, possibly also braking, are in excess of what is possible under the curre...