The purpose of the master's thesis was to determine which are the key factors that determine the size of the soil damage and which are the actions how to reduce the damage to a minimum. The study was conducted at two research objects in the Forest Management Unit Mislinja. In total, there were 132 profiles. On these profiles data of CI, soil moisture and the characteristic points were collected. Also, the thickness and coverage of the logging residues were assessed. This was done for all three work processes: cutting with harvester, skidding with forwarder and skidding with Clambunk. It was found that the values were higher on research object 1 (cutting short timber) than on research object 2 (cutting long timber) - the forest floor was more compressed on research object 1. The width of the skidding trail after harvester was narrower (298,65 cm) than the width of skidding trail after forwarder (319,98 cm). The width of the skidding trail after the process of harvesting was changed in 63,53 %. When skidding with Clambunk the average width of the skidding trail was 337 cm. The average width of the skidding trail was the highest in skidding with Clambunk. It was about 38 cm wider than the average skidding trail of harvester and 17 cm wider than the average of skidding trail of forwarder. The largest share of ruts was in the first three types of ruts (for all three processes). The most critical was the process of skidding with Clambunk (5,21%). Not acceptable ruts were observed in five cases - the depths of these were 60,20 cm, 47,46 cm, 60,39 cm, 42,83 cm and 46,53 cm. The study also found out the positive impact of logging residues on the ruts - thrust rut occurred where there was the highest share of logging residues; deepest ruts were created in those sections where there were no logging residues, or only a few. Actions to reduce the soil damage should be minimized by proper planning, the right choice of the machine and adjusting to the environment.
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