Analisi del lavoro della Claas Jaguar 880 con testata GBE-1 nella raccolta di un pioppeto da biomassa.

Working times observed during different harvesting phases in a poplar short rotation coppice (second rotation) were calculated. The main objective of the work was to evaluate the yard productivity and the economic gain in order to furnish good indications to the field operators about the harvesting planning. A comparisons between productivity and economic features was carried out on observed (experimental yard) and optimized data (optimized yard), the latter characterized by the absence of the inproductive times due to suboptimal yard organization. The harvested gross time as a function of distance covered by machine was assessed using linear regressions methods. The observed average biomass in plantation was 47.32 t ha-1. The harvesting gross average productivity observed in experimental yard was 34.20 t h^-1 and the optimized was 54.16 t h^-1. The working ability was 0.76 and 1.18 ha h^-1 for experimental and optimized yard, respectively. The final product (chips) costs estimated was 9.81 euro t^-1 and 444.46 euro ha-1 in the experimental yard. The optimized yard was 22-24% more efficient . This paper demonstrates the feasibilty to estimate harvesting times and costs per hectare using linear regressions with good approximation when the standing biomass in plantation is known. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]