Wood Procurement
39% of the available forests in the United States are in the South.
Private citizens own 3 quarters of land.
Paper industry uses specially designed equipment to harvest & prepare crops of trees:
- Power chain saws
- Skidders-forest tractors are used for opening sections of land.
- Specially designed combines.
- Mechanized tree shears.
- Cranes, clamp trucks, truck dumpers.
- Slashers saws.
- Debarking drums.