Skogsmaskiners bränsleförbrukning
This report is a thesis work for a B.Sc. in Forestry exam at the School for Forest Engineers, SLU. The aim of the work was to compare fuel consumption during work in practical field conditions with a standardized method developed by Skogforsk (The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden), (Brunberg, 2005) for harvesters and forwarders from different manufacturers and of different sizes in order to promote the development of more fuel efficient machines.
Two studies were carried out.
- Statistics of fuel consumption were collected.
- An inquiry was sent out in order to get more detailed information of different aspects influencing the fuel consumption.
The studied machines were divided into two classes, large machines (> 150 kW), and average size machines (100 ? 150 kW), and of the manufacturer Timberjack and Valmet.
Our results shows a 15 % lower fuel consumption for average size harvesters and an 8 % higher fuel consumption for large harvesters compared with Skogforsks model. For forwarders there are just small differences between our studies and Skogforsks model.
The studies were carried out in a limited period of time and to get a more reliable result the study should have extended in time.