Title:
A New Cut-Windrower for Medium Rotation Forestry of Poplar
Author(s):
Pari, L., Civitarese, V., Del Giudice, A., Suardi, A.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
The harvesting systems for five-years old poplar plantations requires very often the use of specialized forest machineries such as harvester, feller, forwarder and chipper. Usually, after felling, the working phases consist of extraction, stacking and chipping; these determine the raising of costs, especially when the area to be harvested has a small size. In order to introduce technological innovations for medium rotation forestry harvesting, the Engineering unit of the Agricultural Research Council (CRA-ING) of Monterotondo (Rome, Italy) has developed a prototype of cut windrower capable to cut and place the plants, along inter-rows, parallel to the progress of the tractor but in the opposite direction. The prototype is semi-trailed by a 95 kW tractor (at least). Thereafter, collection and chipping of windrowed biomass is accomplished directly in the inter-row with a self-propelled chipper equipped with a pick-up head. The operative working capacity was 0.25 ha h-1 whereas the operative production was 48 t h-1.
Keywords:
energy crops, harvesting, poplar, short rotation forestry (SRF)
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Short rotation forestry and short rotation coppice
Event:
20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1DO.2.2
Pages:
273 - 276
ISBN:
978-88-89407-54-7
Paper DOI:
10.5071/20thEUBCE2012-1DO.2.2
Price:
FREE
