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Paavo Valonen (email)

Ajouraväli ja tekomiehen fyysinen kuormittuminen kuitupuun teossa.

Valonen P. (1977). Ajouraväli ja tekomiehen fyysinen kuormittuminen kuitupuun teossa. Silva Fennica vol. 11 no. 4 article id 4978. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a14832

English title: Strip road spacing and the physical strain put on forest workers during pulpwood cutting

Abstract

The physical strain put on forest workers and work time consumption during pulpwood cutting were compared when the bolts were stacked at the side of strip road, the strip road spacings being 15–25 m and 26–35 m, and when stacked at scattered points along the cutting strip.

When stacking at scattered points along cutting strip work time consumption was 17–21% and the heart rate 9–12% less than when stacking at the side of the strip road, strip road spacing being 15–25 m. When the strip road spacing was increased to 26–35 m, the time consumption increased by 18–30%, but the heart rate appeared unchanged. This result suggests that the forest worker compensates for increased physical strain caused by an increased stacking distance by changing his working technique and rate and by increasing the number of his breaks.

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Original keywords
metsätyö; ajanmenekki; kasaus; ajouraväli; työn kuormittavuus

English keywords
time consumption; physical workload; forest work; stacking; strip road spacing; physical stress

Published in 1977

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