Transportation to the woods

We use a truck with swap cargo beds, which only runs on forest roads. We drive in the woods throughout the year, but most of ash is spread in the summer.

We are dependent on the weather and we do not run in the woods when it have rained a lot, where there is a considerable risk that the forest road will be destroyed. Even snow-covered roads can stop spreading, when it might be to slippery.

The ash is loaded on swap cargo beds carried out to the woods. The spreading machine will run to and from the swap cargo beds where it load before it go further into the woods, where the truck fails to arrive.

Our spreading vehicles are small and flexible and don´t damage to nature. We never unload ash on the ground,  because we don´t want any gravel and stone in the ashes, which at the spread can damage trees.



           

A good logistics solution

From the ash storage to the woods
We are striving to have the shortest distance between the storage site and the dissemination areas, which gives a minimum possible CO₂ emissions and is the most cost-effective.

The National Board of Forestry  puts the planned dissemination areas so close to our ash storage as possible.
In this situation, we depend on the landowners who want to have ashes scattered in the forest, the size distribution areas are and how close it is between regions. That is what determines how good logistics solution can be obtained.

 

Small areas a barrier?

In this context, the question arise if a landowner with less land area has a chance to have their ashes spread in the forest?

Usually you can collect a large contiguous area on if there are several neighbors who decide to return the ashes to their forests. This makes ash recycling not depend on the forest company you are a member of, or if you have a small or a big forest.

Planning in the woods

The distance between the ash container and the area for spreading is critical, because the machines have low top speeds even when they are empty. Dissemination areas at greater distances than one kilometer from the loading place makes the spread considerably more expensive. Ideally, the distance does not exceed 200 m.

Therefore we are careful to choose carriers who are good at navigating in the woods, and in cooperation with the machine driver is able to plan how the container is best placed in relation to the area for spreading.

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