Aprovechamiento e industrialización de dos plantaciones de gmelina arborea de 15 años de edad en diferentes condiciones de pendiente

The main objective of this study was to determine the logging and industrialization of two 15 years-old Gmelina arborea un-managed plantations with two different slopes: 30 % and 60 %. Trees had an average diameter at breast height (DBH) of 31.23 cm and a total height of 14.87 m. Three logs per tree were extracted. Only 22 % of total standing volume in the plantation is usable as end product for market sale. The non-sawlog (waste) was 42.57 in standing tree (42.57 %), to extract log from tree filled (14.43 %), to saw in central block (26.27 %) and commercial lumber (22.10 %). The lumber recovery was 53.22 % in extracting a central block from logs and final lumber recovery in commercial lumber was 45.88 %.