Issue 1

Article type	Title	Authors	page
REVIEW	Review of ergonomics in forestry of foreign countries	Jun-ichi KONUMA	１-16
ARTICLE	Ergonomical considerations on the tractor logging operation using skidding road (I) -Characteristics and evaluation of physical stress-	Yuki IMATOMI	17-27
ARTICLE	Ergonomical considerations on the tractor logging operation using skidding road (II) -Comparison of operator's physiological load between on-road driving and off-roaddriving-	Yuki IMATOMI	29-39
NOTE	Letter from study abroad(II) -Visiting to Middle Europe-	Hiroshi Kobayashi	41-49
NOTE	The meeting of the Japan Forest Engineering Association "Silviculture and Thining operation system with high efficiency forest machinery"	Takeshi Yamada	51-54

Issue 2

Article type	Title	Authors	page
REVIEW	Future Development and the Present Situation of Self-moving Silviculture Machines on the Forest Land	Kazuo MIMURA	１-18
ARTICLE	Vibrational characteristics of high handle chain saws -comparison with low handle chain saw-	Degang KONG and Yoshio FUJII	19-30
ARTICLE	The physical lumbar burden of forestry workers -In the manual planting work-	Yozo YAMADA, Katsumi TOYOKAWA and Yuki IMATOMI	31-39
ARTICLE	The influence of forest machines on soil compaction in logging operation	Yoshinori KUMAKURA, Toshiaki TASAKA, and Hideo SAKAI	41-51
ARTICLE	Improvement of function and comfortableness of forestry-workers' clothing -Function demanded for forestry-workers' clothing-	Hiroko SHIMIZU and Hideo SAKAI	53-60
ARTICLE	Improvement of function and comfortableness of forestry-workers' clothing -Climate inside clothing when brush cutting-	Hideo SAKAI, Hiroko SHIMIZU, Toshiaki TASAKA, Toshiyuki TSUSHIMA,Yoshinori KUMAKURA, Soichi NAKAMURA and Toshiaki NOGUCHI	61-71
NOTE	Report of IUFRO S3.04 meeting	Katsuhiro KITAGAWA	73-76
NOTE	Symposium of the Japan Forest Engineering Association -The forest road in the 21th century-	Editors	77-96