FORESTRY METHOD Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A01G23/00 A01G23/02 

FIELD: forestry.

SUBSTANCE: method involves successively performing cutting, felling, tree bunching operations in cutting area during advancement of machines along swath skidding roads, and planting forest crops; working out cutting area by successively performing the following steps of process circuit using cutting-delimbing-bucking-bunching machine moving along skidding road: successively cutting trees within skidding road width; moving each tree by distance sufficient for horizontal placement of tree in spacing without disturbing trees kept in rows and spacing and, while pulling cut tree with its head, delimbing it in skidding road; bucking successively delimbed trunk part into lengths and laying-bunching lengths near skidding road in spacing; after cutting of all trees for one pass of machine in skidding road, collecting and transporting lengths by means of forwarder to wood loading point to thereby set free spaces for processing of other trees cut in swath strips and bunching of lengths; at subsequent working stroke of machine, successively cutting and shortening cut trees at one side of skidding road wherein maximum access to trees in rows is provided, with direction of skidding road relative to direction of row being taken into account; after collecting and transporting by means of forwarder of stocked lengths to wood loading point, performing third working stroke of machine along skidding road in direction opposite to previous stroke, wherein maximum access to trees from other side of skidding road is provided without necessity for wide turnings of machine tools; providing procedures similar to previous circuit and terminating process by carrying stocked lengths to wood loading point; upon termination of cutting procedures at forest generation alternation stage, creating forest crops on the basis of line-row process by arranging forest crop rows along-parallel to skidding roads through cleaning of strips, tilling of soil and planting of seedlings, each of skidding roads being used as spacing; newly providing skidding roads intersecting forest crop rows at an angle thereto, and closing forest growing cycle.

EFFECT: increased efficiency in realization of various forest growing procedures.

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