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Moisture content of fresh Scots pine wood in areas near damage caused by harvester head feed rollers

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dc.abstract.enBy damaging bark, mechanized harvesting deprives wood of its natural mechanical barrier. This study concerns the effect of this damage on the changes in moisture content that occur near the damaged areas of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). This study was carried out using 45 randomly selected 11 m long logged pine stems. Additionally, the effect of bark thickness on the depth of damage was measured. To determine the influence of the location of the damage and bark thickness on the wood moisture near the damaged region, wood samples were collected from two sections. The first was located one meter above the log’s base, while the second was located one meter from the end of the log. Two increment cores were taken by a Pressler borer in each section: one from the damaged wood zone and the second from the undamaged wood zone. The average bark thickness one meter from the base of the log was 11.2 mm, which decreased to 1.8 mm in the samples taken one meter from the top of the log. The average depths of the damage caused by feed roller spikes in the two sections were 3.9 and 3.8 mm, respectively, indicating that there was no significant effect of bark thickness on the depth of the damage. The wood samples collected near the damaged wood zone (DW) had about 13 percent lower moisture content than those taken from the undamaged zone (UDW). This difference was statistically significant. We observed greater mean moisture content closer to the top of the log for both the samples taken near the damaged zone and the samples taken from the undamaged zone. One meter from the base of the log, the moisture content difference between the DW and UDW was 9.8 percentage points, which was statistically insignificant. By contrast, significantly lower moisture content (−16%) was observed in the DW one meter from the top of the log.
dc.affiliationWydział Leśny i Technologii Drewna
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Użytkowania Lasu
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Ekonomiki i Techniki Leśnej
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Entomologii i Fitopatologii Leśnej
dc.contributor.authorTomczak, Karol
dc.contributor.authorLatterini, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorSmarul, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorStanula, Zygmunt
dc.contributor.authorJelonek, Tomasz
dc.contributor.authorKuźmiński, Robert Hubert
dc.contributor.authorŁakomy, Piotr
dc.contributor.authorTomczak, Arkadiusz
dc.date.access2025-06-23
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-01T06:21:32Z
dc.date.available2025-10-01T06:21:32Z
dc.date.copyright2023-06-20
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>By damaging bark, mechanized harvesting deprives wood of its natural mechanical barrier. This study concerns the effect of this damage on the changes in moisture content that occur near the damaged areas of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). This study was carried out using 45 randomly selected 11 m long logged pine stems. Additionally, the effect of bark thickness on the depth of damage was measured. To determine the influence of the location of the damage and bark thickness on the wood moisture near the damaged region, wood samples were collected from two sections. The first was located one meter above the log’s base, while the second was located one meter from the end of the log. Two increment cores were taken by a Pressler borer in each section: one from the damaged wood zone and the second from the undamaged wood zone. The average bark thickness one meter from the base of the log was 11.2 mm, which decreased to 1.8 mm in the samples taken one meter from the top of the log. The average depths of the damage caused by feed roller spikes in the two sections were 3.9 and 3.8 mm, respectively, indicating that there was no significant effect of bark thickness on the depth of the damage. The wood samples collected near the damaged wood zone (DW) had about 13 percent lower moisture content than those taken from the undamaged zone (UDW). This difference was statistically significant. We observed greater mean moisture content closer to the top of the log for both the samples taken near the damaged zone and the samples taken from the undamaged zone. One meter from the base of the log, the moisture content difference between the DW and UDW was 9.8 percentage points, which was statistically insignificant. By contrast, significantly lower moisture content (−16%) was observed in the DW one meter from the top of the log.</jats:p>
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dc.description.number6
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dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume14
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/f14061276
dc.identifier.issn1999-4907
dc.identifier.urihttps://sciencerep.up.poznan.pl/handle/item/5113
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/6/1276
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofForests
dc.relation.pagesart. 1276
dc.rightsCC-BY
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dc.share.typeOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.entimber
dc.subject.enmechanized harvesting
dc.subject.enwood moisture
dc.subject.enblue stain
dc.subject.enwood defects
dc.titleMoisture content of fresh Scots pine wood in areas near damage caused by harvester head feed rollers
dc.typeJournalArticle
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oaire.citation.issue6
oaire.citation.volume14