Neoloy® Geocells create all-weather, sustainable logging roads and log yards on any type of terrain, to increase handling, safety and productivity.
Forests are typically located in regions with mountainous terrain and soft, wet, silty soils. Forest roads require quality design, construction and maintenance, so that foresters can focus their efforts on land management and harvesting timber and not on road repairs and maintenance.
The Neoloy cellular confinement system used for forest road stabilization meets these challenges – with all-weather installation and and all-weather road use in soft and saturated soils. The Neoloy Geocell solution creates sustainable forest service roads and logging roads, with a small environmental imprint, using locally available soils for construction.
Logistics is simple as the geocells arrive onsite in folded sections. These are easily laid out, filled with locally won granular soil, and compacted for immediate use, even by heavy tracked skidders. Subgrade excavation can be reduced or eliminated, while foresters won’t have to sacrifice part of the tree harvest to build log (corduroy) roads, or haul in engineered aggregate.
Neoloy Geocells are designed to last, with stiffness, strength and creep resistance unavailable in other solutions, making them the best management practice for forest roads and logging roads. Neoloy-based Geocell reinforced roads maintain the gravel road surface courses and resist rutting under the load of heavy logging vehicles. This also helps to prevent sedimentation from forest roads in watershed-sensitive areas.
Forest service roads in nature reserves and national parks can be constructed where the minimization of both the environmental footprint and maintenance is critical. Logging roads for timber production are strong, durable and all-weather to improve harvesting production with minimal environmental impact. The fact that forest road structural thickness can be halved while using locally available soil for infill also cuts construction time as well as costs.
Improve log yard and saw mill operational efficiency using Neoloy® Geocell soil stabilization for strong, reinforced and reliable working platforms year round.
Lumber and log yard operations involve intense handling of very heavy loads often in relatively small areas. Inevitably, this causes severe rutting and degradation to the yard surfaces and impairs operations. Maintaining full log yard capacity in these conditions requires frequent maintenance and wasted downtime.
Neoloy Geocell stabilization is a sustainable solution proven to improve log yard operations and profitability. Neoloy 3D mechanical confinement stabilizes soft soil and increases the bearing capacity of soil and the strength of the pavement materials. As a result, Neoloy enables even soft soil to withstand the consistent heavy weight of traffic common to log yards and the heavy loads which they transport without surface degradation.
Neoloy Geocells are also the ideal all-weather soil stabilization solution, enabling operations in extreme heat or cold (including freeze-thaw cycles) and as well as in rainy conditions and fully saturated soils.
The semi-rigid ‘beam effect’ of Neoloy Geocells distributes loads laterally to reduce vertical loading. This ensures that Neoloy-stabilized surfaces can better withstand heavy-duty log-handling vehicles than other solutions. And the Neoloy Geocells are much more effective and reliable than chemical stabilizers, which may also has a higher environmental impact. Neoloy Geocells have been tested and proven to be an effective method to resist rutting under heavy loading on any soil type – due to their high stiffness, strength and resistance to permanent deformation.
Neoloy is also extremely cost-effective, allowing a reduction in road thickness by up to 50%. Because it reinforces locally available but marginal granular infill, Neoloy reduces hauling and costs.
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