Training manuals and reference guides support trainers in building the knowledge and skills of community forestry practitioners.
Appropriate small-scale forest harvesting technologies for Southeast Asia: manually operated sulkies
December 2015
Two-wheeled manual sulkies were developed in the 1970s for use in the tropics by forest development projects of mainly Scandinavian countries. In its final...
Appropriate small-scale forest harvesting technologies for Southeast Asia: motor winches
December 2015
Mobile motor winches play an important role in forest harvesting. They are used in situations where winches mounted on tractors and forwarders cannot reach...
Appropriate small-scale forest harvesting technologies for Southeast Asia: rubber-tracked mini skidders
December 2015
The Jonsereds Iron Horse (Swedish Järn Hästen) was the irst commercially available rubber-tracked mini-skidder (crawler) to appear in Scandinavian forest...
Appropriate small-scale forest harvesting technologies for Southeast Asia: hand tools
December 2015
Hand tools are the most commonly used for subsistence or household use when harvesting bamboo or fuelwood. Axes, two-man handsaws and other hand tools are...
Appropriate small-scale forest harvesting technologies for Southeast Asia: log chutes
December 2015
Wooden chutes for big, heavy timber built with round logs can provide permanent transportation solutions. However, their use in tropical natural forests cannot...