Factors Affecting the Productivity of Logging Crews Using Chain Saws and Wheeled Skidders in Tree-Length Aspen

Abstract

Describes the productivity of selected aspen pulpwood loggers in northern Minnesota. The most important factors affecting productivity were the ratio of harvested trees per acre to total trees per acre, harvested volume per acre, and the spacing of nonharvested trees

Citation

Bradley, Dennis P.; Biltonen, Frank E. 1973. Factors Affecting the Productivity of Logging Crews Using Chain Saws and Wheeled Skidders in Tree-Length Aspen. Research Note NC-151. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station