Forestry Thinning in Sweden

I am not an expert. I am an amateur. A swedish forest has a cycle of about 80-120 years. From the start with a clean cut field of felling timber. 1.)Soil preparation; mechanical turning up spots of mineral earth. Within about a year. 2.)Planting trees in those spots of mineral earth. At about year 1-2. 3.)Clearing once or twice, after about 10-20 years. The trees are left on the ground. 4.)Thinning once or twice, between about 20 – 60 years. The trees mainly become pulp (1st) and timber (2nd). 5.)Clear cut of the forest after about 80 – 120 years. This video shows how I do thinning in our forest. The trees I take out we sell as pulp wood, in effect they become paper, cardboard and such products. I fell the decided trees with chainsaw, then winch them into our processor (Kranman P25). Where they are delimbed, cut to length and stacked together. Thereafter I collect them in the forest with our forwarder and transport them out to a proper forest road, where the timbertruck can come and collect them for transportation to a pulpindustry. During the video you will see that the trees (spruce anyway) has been infected with an insect Granbarkborre “Sprucebarkbeetle”. Ips Typographus in latin. It is not a problem as long as the infected trees leaves the forest before the insects have time to leave the trees and infest the standing trees. I want them out before the 1 of July. You will also see traces of a charcoal kiln. Those traces are very common in swedish forests, back from the days when a lot of coal was required by the ironmanufacturing all around Sweden. There is a lot to be said about forestry, in Sweden and other countries. But that’s it for now. I hope you enjoy!