Month: July 2023

Jim Wilmer & Sons. It's not an easy road ahead, timber harvesting and traffic management While driving to a meeting in Dumfries and Galloway, I got held up by road…

The Komatsu 951XC is a new harvester for final logging in steep terrain and on soft ground. The eight-wheel design, combined with the stable Komatsu concept, ensures a machine with…

Euan Mellis of Mellis Forestry Contractor offers his customers a sensitive and low impact solution for the harvesting of thinnings. The company is based in Elgin in the northeast of…

The 630H Tigercat silviculture carrier replaces modified ag tractors with a purpose built carrier to pull mounding and plow implements in preparation for replanting operations.Tigercat, a company that has contributed…

Dwayne Lloyd, a timber haulier from Sundre AB in Canada was the winner of our July front cover photo competition. Dwayne sent in a photo of the 2020 Western Star…

Canada is experiencing its most destructive wildfire season on record, as hundreds of blazes burning from coast to coast continue to send tremendous plumes of smoke into the atmosphere and over the…

June 26th is a historic date for Komatsu Forest since this is when the company's production at Klockarbäcken in Umeå will become completely carbon neutral. Komatsu Group has a vision…

Komatsu Forest said it is building a new development department focused on the electrification of forest machines. Komatsu Forest said it will invest in the future with a new development…

From December to March, MAN integrated the upcoming large-series e-truck into its annual winter testing in northern Sweden. There, the MAN eTruck, which is suitable for daily ranges of between…

Jonah Dixon drives for S & D Smith, a timber haulage company from Longtown, who run a fleet of ten lorries throughout Northern England and Scotland. He hauls timber for…