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(Click for video) Forwarder Cut-to-length logging ( CTL ) is a mechanized harvesting system in which trees are delimbed and cut to length directly at the stump . [ 1 ] CTL is typically a two-man, two-machine operation with a harvester felling, delimbing, and bucking trees and a forwarder transporting the logs from the felling to a landing area ...
A forwarder is a forestry vehicle that carries big felled logs cut by a harvester from the stump to a roadside landing for later acquisition. Forwarders can use rubber tires or tracks. [ 1 ] Unlike a skidder , a forwarder carries logs clear of the ground, which can reduce soil impacts but tends to limit the size of the logs it can move. [ 2 ]
This information when used in conjunction with price lists for each specific log specification enables the optimisation of log recovery from the stem. Harvesters are routinely available for cutting trees up to 900 millimetres (35 in) in diameter, built on vehicles weighing up to 20 metric tons (20 long tons; 22 short tons), with a boom reaching ...
A Eucalyptus being felled using springboards, c. 1884–1917, Australia McGiffert Log Loader in East Texas, US, c. 1907 Lumber under snow in Montgomery, Colorado, 1880s. Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
Oshkosh M911 tractor hauling logs. A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. [1] Some have integrated flatbeds, some are discrete tractor units, and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it.
Modern freight forwarders offer an end-to-end process i.e. shipping the goods from the place of origin to the final destination and may offer additional services such as warehouse planning, cargo insurance and customs brokerage. [7] In a single transaction, the forwarder may be acting as a carrier (principal) or as an agent for his customer or ...
Emery Worldwide was an American air freight forwarder and air cargo carrier founded in 1946. [1] Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight industry, initially renting space on existing carrier routes before developing a fleet of dedicated aircraft. For nearly 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. [2]
Log boom on St. Croix River in Maine, aerial photo taken in 1973 Timber marks on a log building in Sweden where they are called flottningsmärke. A log boom (sometimes called a log fence or log bag) is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests.