Production and Cost Modelling
With operational costs and fuel prices continuing to rise, pricing a block to harvest, prune or thin is a crucial factor in maximising the profit from forestry operations.
Informe is an annual publication that Forme publishes which monitors and tracks the escalation of costs for typical forestry equipment within the sector. Informe is useful for both contractors and managers, and provides a benchmark for calculating the daily cost of multiple pieces of forestry equipment, with the aim of determining a daily cost to run a forestry operation. You can order your own copy of Informe here.
Informe comes in three versions aimed at their respective parts of the industry:
Harvesting – for harvest operations
Forestry – for silviculture operations
Engineering – for forest roading operations
Informe Harvesting has also been digitised in the form of a web application. To learn more about this contact us.
Silviculture Target Rate Estimation Model
Take the guesswork out of silvicultural target rate setting and daily cost estimates by using our Target Rate Estimation Models. Whether it be planting, releasing, pruning or thinning activities, put some substance behind your crews daily targets and per hectare cost estimates. Use you own variable inputs including crew size, stocking rate, travel distance, slope, prune heights, cull stems and hindrance levels and let our estimation model do the rest. Complete your own time study on the crew or engage Forme to undertake an independent time study to provide more robustness in your target rate estimates.