2019

LVM Announces a Tender for Soil Preparation by Creating Uplifts and for Drainage System Maintenance

In order to ensure high quality and sustainable forest management, JSC "Latvia's State Forests" (LVM) introduces new technologies in its daily work, as well as cooperates with experienced and responsible forestry partners. Understanding the importance of wet mineral soils and peat soils, as well as the need to maintain forest drainage systems, LVM announces a tender "Soil Preparation by Creating Uplifts and for Drainage System Maintenance in 2019-2023".

Within the framework of the open tender, LVM offers to conclude one-year or longer-term company contracts. The contracted amount of the work to be done in the field of soil cultivation by making uplifts accounts for 1897 hectares; daily maintenance of forest drainage systems - 3775 hours.

An informative meeting for potential co-operation partners on the course of the tender, the procedure for the provision of services, preparation and submission of tender proposals in the Electronic Procurement System (EIS) will take place at LVM Customer Centre in Riga, 1 Vaiņodes Street on 1 March 2019 at 11.00.

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It is important to prepare soil correctly after a renewal felling or clear felling. One of the options is to make uplifts in clearings, where forest seedlings will be planted in order to provide the future forest with favourable growth conditions. The mobility of forest machinery has the decisive role in the quality of soil preparation in wet mineral soils and peat soils. The uplift method is the most suitable method for such areas, and it requires a trackside excavator with the width of tracks of at least 700 mm. The most suitable solution here is a trackside excavator equipped with a special lifting bucket, but it can also be done with a conventional excavator bucket.

“"Based on the experience so far, its high productivity is the most important element in soil preparation with the uplifting method. It has been found that twice the productivity of a conventional digging bucket can be achieved with the M2 bucket manufactured by the Estonian company Tamsalu EPT. The advantage of the bucket is the active shovel driven by a separate cylinder. Thanks to it, you can create uplifts much quicker with one continuous motion," says Edmunds Linde, Head of LVM Silviculture Planning.