On the effect of saturation of a cutting area with biodiversity objects on the productivity of logging equipment

The work is devoted to the issue of the impact of the saturation of the cutting area with biodiversity objects on the productivity of logging equipment. The productivity of forest machines is the most important indicator of their work, determined by the amount of work performed by a machine or mechanism per unit of time. There are a number of scientific studies devoted to the study of the productivity of forest machinery, unfortunately, they do not pay attention to the impact of the saturation of the cutting area with biodiversity objects on the productivity of logging equipment. The purpose of this scientific study is to analyze the impact of the saturation of the cutting area with biodiversity objects on the productivity of logging equipment in the conditions of forestry in the North-West of the Russian Federation to determine its quantitative characteristics. The objectives of the study are formulated as follows: to analyze the modern regulatory and methodological framework for the conservation of biodiversity in the production of logging operations; to analyze the practice of conservation of biodiversity in the production of logging operations in the conditions of forestry in the North-West of the Russian Federation; Based on this analysis, to formulate proposals for determining the quantitative characteristics of the impact of the saturation of the cutting area with biodiversity objects on the productivity of logging equipment in the conditions of forestry in the North-West of the Russian Federation. The authors of this scientific study propose to concentrate all environmental protection actions that need to be carried out during logging operations into a new technological operation, which is proposed to be called "bio saving". The more a cutting area is saturated with biodiversity objects, the smaller these objects will be and the more scattered they will be across the cutting area, the more time the harvester operator will spend on bio saving, the greater the value of the bio saving time proposed by the authors of this scientific study. To understand the importance of this term in the harvester productivity calculation formula, it is enough to read the characteristics of such an important object of biological diversity as old-age trees of all breeds and imagine how much time the harvester operator will spend deciding whether this particular tree meets the above-mentioned characteristics or not.

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