Geotechnical substantiation of the operability of skidding drags and technological corridors on the slopes of thawing soils during the operation of forest machines with wheeled and semi-tracked propulsion

In the Russian Federation a significant part of the forest fund is located on permafrost.Many regions of Russia have large reserves of ripe and over-mature operational forests, and a significant part of these reserves is located in hard-to-reach places.Currently, the overwhelming volume of wood harvesting in Russia is performed by using modern machine complexes mainly including wheeled forestry machines of various configuration and purposes.At the same time the problem of the negative