Year of publication 1989

This manual is a compilation of 6 booklets that present simple tools and techniques for wood harvesting through straightforward text and clear line drawings. The aim of the manual is to provide ideas for techniques and equipment that will improve productivity at little or no investment, encourage the use of local skills and materials and so promote and encourage the involvement of the local population in forest utilization.The equipment introduced in these booklets is simple and inexpensive to make, reduces workloads and thus energy demands of human labour, and can easily be made from locally available materials in modest blacksmith shops, in the maintenance facilities of local communities or at the site of the task at hand. The manual also contains important basic instructions about safety at work.