The Forest Research Institutes's work on cable logging: A review of its main findings

Authors: G. Murphy
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 1979, Issue N.Z.J.For. 24(1) 1979, pp 76-84, May 1979
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

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Abstract: Cable logging will become more important as harvesting moves into steeper terrain where logging is about twice as expensive as on flat country. The hauling phase is the high cost centre for cable logging, with extraction distance and volume extracted per haul being two of the main factors affecting production and costs. Production can be improved. by using methods which take into account these and other factors. Much of the Forest Research Institute's work has been in untended stands, and more work needs to be done in the tended stands of future crops.

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