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Extended Working Hours in the Southeastern Logging Industry 

Mitchell, Dana (2008-08-15)
Logging business owners are exploring the ways to reduce equipment costs. Although shift work is common in some other industries, it is not common in the logging industry in the southeastern United States. Implementation ...

Implementing Residue Chippers On Harvesting Operation for Biomass Recovery 

Aulakh, Jaspreet (2008-05-15)
Three operations that implemented a small residue chipper on their conventional logging operations were studied in 2006. Two of the jobs were thinning operations, the remaining operation conducted clearcuts. All three ...

Optimizing the Use of a John Deere Slash Bundling Unit in a Tree-Length Logging System 

Meadows, Steven Richard, Jr. (2010-05-13)
The purpose of this project was to explore an avenue that could supply a source of readily available energy in Southeastern forested lands. Typical, southern harvesting operations consist of whole tree harvesting in which ...