Determining fixed and operating costs of logging equipment.

Describes and analyzes all elements of equipment cost and gives a procedure for estimating them. 1980 This article is in PDF format (file size: 9323 kb). To download this article, right click on the link immediately below and choose "save target as". To view the article, left click the link immediately below.
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Determining fixed and operating costs of logging equipment.   (1980)

Describes and analyzes all elements of equipment cost and gives a procedure for estimating them.

"Today's logging equipment ranges anywhere from chain saws to complex multl-functional equipment which can fell, delimb, buck, and haul to the landing. To select specific equipment and use that equipment profitably, loggers should know something of equipment costs and how to determine them."

Author: Miyata, Edwin S.

Source: General Technical Report NC-55. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

Citation: Miyata, Edwin S.  1980.  Determining fixed and operating costs of logging equipment.  General Technical Report NC-55. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station.