Harvesting wood with the drone
The Swedish startup AirForestry, together with Sveaskog, is developing a prototype drone to be used in thinning. The carbon device will weigh around 80 kg with a wingspan of 6.2 m. It transports a 60kg lightweight harvester unit that is said to be able to fell logs up to 0.06m³. This could work as follows: the drone, batteries and harvester unit are transported to the site of operation on a car trailer. There you position the drone over the...