Log Scaling - Indigenous volume tables, rimu, tawa, nothofagus species
- Document Type
- Letters, Data tables
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Archives New Zealand
- Accession Number
- TTT001014
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000014
- Location
- Christchurch Archives
- Archives Number
- BABB, CH19, 25/2
- Period
- 1960 - 1974
- Volume
- Approx. 150 pp
- Content
- Contains volume tables (based on small end diameter underbark and length) for rimu from selection logging operations in South Westland with prescribed mensuration table.Methodology of how measurements were conducted, with discussion and formula and equations used for calculations of volumes is recorded.
- Source
- Ianthe Forest, Wanganui Forest
- Future Work
- May be useful to current work looking into log volume tables for rimu and tawa.The last letter in this file discusses carrying out future inventory with relevance to testing the applicability of the 1947 tawa volume tables to southern rata, Westland quintinia and kamahi. However there is no follow-up letter in response.
- General Note
- The tawa volume table is from the Rotarua Conservancy (1947).There are letters discussing the volume tables inaccuracies etc are contained in this file.
- Sort
- Adequate.
- Publish
- No
- Researchers
- G P S Allan, A W Williams, G A Stapleton, G Duff, L R Spicer
- Security
- High
- Species
- tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), red beech (Nothofagus fusca), silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii), hard beech (Nothofagus truncata), mountain beech (Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides), southern rata, quintinia
- Keywords
- Logging, Nothofagus Species, Rimu, Tawa, Volume Equations, Volume Tables
- Subject Areas
- Harvesting: Derivation of log volume tables for rimu, tawa, southern rata, quintinia and kamahi.
- Mensuration: Rimu volume tables.