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Cost Implications of Managing a Deck for a Small Straight Tower Yarder Item Info
- Title:
- Cost Implications of Managing a Deck for a Small Straight Tower Yarder
- Creator:
- Fabricius, Jon M.
- Date Created:
- 1986-05
- Description:
- A Koller Model K-300 yardar was operated on several cut units of the University of Idaho Experimental Forest. Operations pointed to the excellent yarding capabilities of the machine but also demonstrated a significant problem in managing and controlling the yarder deck. Delay times associated with management of the deck and movement of the yarder out of the way for loading represented a substantial portion of the operating day. A breakeven approach vas used to compare the cost of operations vith these delays with the cost of using a hot-loader or sving skidder to move material away from the deck. Breakeven values on the hourly rate that could .be paid for a loadu or swing skidder were surprisingly high. These results indicate that in many cases, use of an additional machine may be more cost effective than struggling with the deck manually.
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Subjects:
- Flat Creek logging costs hot decking cold decking loader cable yarding tower yarder Koller Model K-300 hydraulic carriage forest operations
- UIEF Unit:
- Flat Creek
- Location:
- Flat Creek; UIEF
- Latitude:
- 46.851013
- Longitude:
- -116.724478
- Department:
- Department of Forest Resources
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Cost Implications of Managing a Deck for a Small Straight Tower Yarder", UIEF Research Exchange, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/uief/items/uief_0011.html
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- In copyright, educational use permitted.
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