Martin Strandgard

Use of modelling to compare the impact of roadside drying of Pinus radiata D.Don logs and logging residues on delivered costs using high capacity trucks in Australia

Martin Strandgard, Mauricio Acuna, Paul Turner, Luke Mirowski

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Forest biofuel delivered costs are generally uncompetitive with fossil fuels. Drying forest biofuel can potentially reduce deliver..

Impact of Roadside Drying on Delivered Costs for Eucalyptus globulus Logging Residue and Whole Trees Supplying a Hypothetical Energy Plant in Western Australia Using a Linear-Programming Model

Martin Strandgard, Mohammad Sadegh Taskhiri, Mauricio Acuna, Paul Turner

Journal article  |  2021  |  FORESTS

Australia’s large potential forest bioenergy resource is considerably underutilised, due largely to its high delivered costs. Dryi..

Comparison of the productivity, cost and stem breakage of two- and three-machine harvest systems clearfelling a maturePinus radiatastand

M Strandgard, R Mitchell

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

Damage to trees and logs during harvest and transport can result in major losses of wood volume and value. The study compared a ha..

The progression of forest operations technology and innovation

M Brown, MR Ghaffariyan, M Berry, M Acuna, M Strandgard, R Mitchell

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

A new model for predicting the total tree height for stems cut-to-length by harvesters inPinus radiataplantations

Chenxi Shan, Huiquan Bi, Duncan Watt, Yun Li, Martin Strandgard, Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

A new model for predicting the total tree height for harvested stems from cut-to-length (CTL) harvester data was constructed for P..

Comparison of cost, productivity and residue yield of cut-to-length and fuel-adapted harvesting in a Pinus radiata D.Don final harvest in Western Australia

Martin Strandgard, Rick Mitchell

Journal article  |  2019  |  NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF FORESTRY SCIENCE

Background: Forest biomass is a major global source of biofuel. To compete with other energy sources its delivered costs need to b..

Potential application of overseas forest biomass supply chain experience to reduce costs in emerging Australian forest biomass supply chains - a literature review

M Strandgard, P Turner, L Mirowski, M Acuna

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

Forest biomass (FB) is widely used overseas as an industrial energy source, particularly in Europe, but is currently little used i..

Comparison of productivity, cost and chip quality of four balanced harvest systems operating in a Eucalyptus globulus plantation in Western Australia

M Strandgard, R Mitchell, J Wiedemann

Journal article  |  2019  |  Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering

There have been few comparative harvest system studies to provide a basis to understand the performance and chip quality of harves..

Reconstructing the size of individual trees using log data from cut-to-length harvesters in Pinus radiata plantations: a case study in NSW, Australia

Kuan Lu, Huiquan Bi, Duncan Watt, Martin Strandgard, Yun Li

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

With their widespread utilization, cut-to-length harvesters have become a major source of “big data” for forest management as they..

Impact of number of stems per stool on mechanical harvesting of a Eucalyptus globulus coppiced plantation in south-west Western Australia

Martin Strandgard, Rick Mitchell

Journal article  |  2018  |  SOUTHERN FORESTS

Coppice regeneration of eucalypt plantations is increasingly being used in Australia to reduce re-establishment costs. However, li..