An observational study was performed to understand the operational characteristics of the loader in a hot operation (handling both sawlog and biomass components concurrently) and cold operation (handling biomass and sawlogs separately) for harvesting sawlogs and biomass.
Citation: Kizha, A., H.-S. Han, N. Anderson, A. Koirala, and L. Louis. 2020. Comparing hot and cold loading in an integrated biomass recovery operation. Forests, 11, 385.