Fire-Fighting Adapter for Forest Machinery

The research published as an article presents an innovative solution of a fire-fighting adapter based on the basic hypothesis: to provide sufficient technical support in difficult terrain conditions for water transport logistics in order to quickly prevent the spread and destruction of forest fire. At present, when forest fires begin, it is often quite complicated to provide sufficient technical support for the quick prevention and elimination of fires. This fact is largely eliminated by the designed fire-fighting adapter. It can be used as a fire-fighting mobile device with a base machine of a forest wheeled skidder, part of the long-distance transport of water in difficult terrain (lake system), a water tank in difficult terrain with the possibility of filling the Bambi bag with a helicopter, part of the long-distance transport of water in the case of a difficult water source without a forest access road network, and a mobile device for emergency transportation of material in a difficult terrain. When designing the supporting frame, we used and imitated the evolutionary approach of nature in the form of a generative design tool, available in Autodesk Inventor.

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