This research was developed with information obtained from 71 fomented farm owners of the Espírito Santo State, Brazil, who were responsible for 92 forest contracts, distributed in five areas of the State, according to the deposit of the fomenter company for wood delivery. The objective was to identify the methods and equipment used in the forest crop and wood transportation in these farms. The area fomented per contract had 1.5 to 100,0 hectares, 84,8% with up to 30 hectares and 59,8% with mountain relief. Forest crop and the wood transportation were outsourced in 68,5% and 78,2% of the contracts respectively and were carried out by the farm owners in the remaining contracts. It was verified that the methods and equipment used in the forest crop were not the same in the areas of the five deposits of wood delivery, being also verified differences among the subsystems used by the outsourced contractors and the farm owners.
Forest crop; wood transportation; fomented forest and Espírito Santo State
