cable road | Rosewood

Idioma Inglés

Innovación

Yes

Correo electrónico del autor o propietario

leo.bont@wsl.ch

Sitio web principal

https://www.wsl.ch/en/index.html

Potencial de movilización

> 100'000 m³ for Switzerland

Tipo de madera afectada

stemwood and full trees

Impacto en el medio ambiente y la biodiversidad

The cost reduction will allow new, poorly accessible areas to be developed and additional timber to be harvested.
This has a positive effect on the protective function of the forest in the mountains and it promotes adaptation to climate change.

Id: 2657895

Continent Code: EU

Country Code: CH

Country Name: Switzerland

Name: Zurich

Facilidad de aplicación

Very easy

Impacto económico

Reduced installation cost, improved profitability

Efecto sobre el empleo

Faster and saver skyline layout planing

Efecto sobre los ingresos

Improved profitability of logging in steep terrain

Conocimientos específicos necesarios

Knowledge of QGis is necessary

Costes de aplicación

Installation of freely available QGis Plugin.

Prerequisitos clave

Terrain data must be available or collected along the planned line.

Dominio

Forest management, ecosystem, resilience

Voting

Año de comienzo

2012

Año de finalización

2021

Palabras clave

Título (abreviación)

Seilaplan

Descripción breve

Seilaplan is a tool that supports the design of cable roads for timber harvesting. It works as a QGis-Plugin.

Solución digital

Yes

Tipo de solución

Advice and services for forest owners

Origen de la madera

Forest

Tipo de madera

Stemwood

Potencial de explotación

For forest owners and forest contractors

Resumen

Starting point of the calculation are terrain data (digital elevation model or field measurement data in CSV format), machine and cable road properties.
The program calculates the skyline tensile forces, the skyline sag, support saddle forces. By knowing the rope forces, critical constructions can be avoided. This increases the safety at work.

Seilaplan includes an optimization algorithm that proposes the height and location of the supports. The load path of the skyline together with the terrain profile are displayed graphically and a construction manual is generated. Coordinates and saddle height of the supports can be saved as CSV and KML data so that they are electronically available for further planning steps.

The planning of cable road layout goes much faster. The calculated routing takes advantage of the natural terrain shapes and helps to reduce overall harvesting costs in mountainous regions and steep terrain.

Organización autora o propietaria de la buena práctica

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Research WSL

Nombre del autor o propietario

Leo Bont

Web del autor o propietario

https://seilaplan.wsl.ch/en/index.html

Organización intermediaria de contacto

BFH Berne University of Applied Sciences

Persona de contacto del intermediario

Thuer Peter

Correo electrónico del intermediario

peter.thuer@bfh.ch

Referencia del proyecto

Bont, L. G., Moll, P. E., Ramstein, L., Frutig, F., Heinimann, H. R., & Schweier, J. (2022). SEILAPLAN, a QGIS plugin for cable road layout design. Croat J For Eng. Bont, L. G., Ramstein, L., Frutig, F., & Schweier, J. (2022). Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions. International Journal of Forest Engineering, 1-22. https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandora/object/wsl%3A30255/datastream/PDF/Bont-2022-Tensile_forces_and_defl

Sitio web del proyecto

https://seilaplan.wsl.ch/en/index.html

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