Harvesting in Slovenian Private Forestry : Tagung der IUFRO-Gruppe "Small-scale Forestry"

1993

S. 128-148

17 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200035037

Only the most important findings of the investigation of wood production in private forests (MEDVED, 1991) are presented in the article. The private forest owners are classified in six socio-economic categories and four different classes, according to the size of their forest estates. The owners perform most of the felling and skidding by themselves. In average the technical equipment is rather old-fashioned and mostly inappropriate from the view of work safety. Some calculations about available priniples and theoretical amortizational period for tractors and chain saws are presented for 4 forest estate size classes. Individual protective and safety outfit is extremely rarely used. Therefore the number of work accidents in forests is very high (in average 15 fatalities annualy). The accidents are more frequent in case of smaller forest estates owners. The forest owners are convinced that tehy need more knowledge for work in the forests and that they should have professional assistance as well.