scope:

This document specifies the minimum requirements for the design, calculation, examinations and tests of mobile yarders for logging of forest products and their mounting. This Document counts for all logging operations with cable yarders both in sloped and flat terrain. This document does not apply to cable cranes, cableways for material transport and skidder winches (skidding). The cabin specifications in this context are only relevant for the yarder or a yarder-loader combination. The cabin of the vehicle, where the yarder is mounted, is not part of this document. This document deals with all the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to mobile yarders when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Table 1).This document is not applicable to mobile yarders which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document.