Technology Transfer in Steep Terrain Timber Harvesting
Abstract
Steep country harvesting has been identified as the main bottleneck to achieve greater profitability in the forestry sector of New Zealand and Australia. The forest industry has had serious problems in efficiency, work safety and environmental impacts. The vision of the forestry sector is to develop innovative harvesting technologies to realise substantial productivity gains, improve work safety in steep terrain harvesting and to minimize environmental impacts. An improvement should be realized by developing an advanced steep terrain timber harvesting system based on innovative Austrian technology. The company Koller has the experience and knowledge to produce and to assemble a system which fits perfectly to the requirements of the target countries. The focus will be on capacity improvements, automation and the implementation of on-board monitoring systems. By implementing the new system, the efficiency of harvesting operations should increase at least by 30%, achieved through product innovations and better organisation of work. Furthermore, working safety should be increased by reducing the number of accidents by 20%. Fuel consumption should be decreased by 20%, amongst others by use of hybrid technology. The developed system will be applied, tested and validated in the target countries in order to demonstrate the system to relevant stakeholders, to train operators and to quantify the improvements of the new technology in terms of productivity, costs, fuel consumption, ergonomics, work safety etc. On-the-job training is a key element in order to improve one's acceptance, capability, capacity, and performance in using novel technologies. This should also help to establish the new technology on a long term perspective. The results of the project will be disseminated in various channels. An exploitation strategy promotes the advanced harvesting system in the forestry market sector
Publikationen
Interim report on technology transfer in steep terrain timber harvesting
Autoren: Hofer, M; Kühmaier, M; Visser, R; Ghaffariyan, M Jahr: 2018
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Using Conjoint Analyses to Improve Cable Yarder Design Characteristics: An Austrian Yarder Case Study to Advance Cost-Effective Extraction
Autoren: Kuhmaier, M; Harrill, H; Ghaffariyan, MR; Hofer, M; Stampfer, K; Brown, M; Visser, R Jahr: 2019
Journal articles
Life cycle inventory of forest operations
Autoren: Argnani, A; Stampfer, K; Grigolato, S; Kühmaier, M Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Influence of an energy-recovering carriage on productivity
Autoren: Vorraber, M; Stampfer, K; Kühmaier, M Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Marktübersicht - Europäische Mastseilgeräte
Autoren: Wassermann, C; Kühmaier, M; Stampfer, K Jahr: 2019
Journal articles
Using conjoint analyses to improve cable yarder design characteristics: An Austrian yarder case study to advance cost-effective extraction
Autoren: Stampfer, K; Kühmaier, M; Harrill, H; Ghaffariyan, M.R; Hofer, M; Brown, M; Visser, R; Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Martin Kühmaier
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Martin Kühmaier
martin.kuehmaier@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91518
BOKU Project Leader
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2020
Karl Stampfer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Karl Stampfer
karl.stampfer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91001, 91501, 91511
Sub Projectleader
01.01.2017 - 31.12.2020
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Canterbury
Rien Visser
partner
University of the Sunshine Coast
Mark Brown
partner
Koller Forsttechnik GmbH
Manfred Hofer
coordinator