CHIPPING IN WHOLE TREE PROCESSING

摘要

The changing timber resource and gradual shift away from native forests into plantations and regrowth has brought infield chipping into serious consideration, as Jim Bowden reports. The second phase of a five-year 500,000 tonne contract for the wholetree chipping of blue gums at ITC's forestry operations at Albany in Western Australia has passed all expectations for one of Australia's largest infield chipping contractors. Phillip Dohnt, managing director of L.V. Dohnt at Nangwarry, South Australia,modified a complete fleet of chippers, skidders and feller-bunchers for the job and relocated a harvesting crew of four men to the chipping site when the second of five 100,000 tonne contracts got the go-ahead in January.