Fuelwood Production in the Form of Discs

The proposed method comprises a small-scale production of fuelwood from felled and delimbed tree trunks in private households by slicing them into roundwood discs. The time consumption of this method was compared to that of the traditional method, which consists of cutting roundwood into log sections that are subsequently split into split billets. Production of fuelwood by the novel method was 2.2 times faster compared to the traditional method. The reason for the higher productivity of the novel method is the smaller number of operations. The application of this pioneering approach resulted in a 25 % lower fuelwood production cost, if compared to the commonly applied practice.