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Appropriate Small-scale Forest Harvesting Technologies for Southeast Asia: Manual Downhill Drifting

Date
01 Dec 2015
Editors
RECOFTC
Publisher
RECOFTC
Serial No.
0000232
Appropriate Small-scale Forest Harvesting Technologies for Southeast Asia: Manual Downhill Drifting

Steep-slope harvesting probably poses the biggest challenges in forest harvesting throughout the world. Traditionally, on slopes above 30 percent, gravitational transport is applied in manual harvesting operations by simply sliding logs downhill.