Education and Training

A woodland plan that lives in a drawer is no use when the harvesting crew needs to know the extraction route, the haulier needs a loading point, and the office…

Digital Technology supports forest protection, monitoring and sustainable management while offering the early detection of disasters and the effects of climate change through data, sensors and AI Digitalisation is becoming…

Timber haulage isn’t general freight with a bit of bark on it. It is specialist transport work where the driver, the lorry and the operator all need to be right.…

Put a new operator in a modern harvester and the machine will often flatter them for an hour. Levelling cabs, smooth crane controls and measuring systems can make the first…

Pip: If you have ever looked at a harvester cab and thought "I want that job" without asking how anyone actually gets there, Forest Machine Magazine has some thoughts —…

A lot of people like the idea of forestry until they meet the reality of it at 6am in sideways rain, on rough ground, with a machine waiting, timber to…

UK driver shortage hasn’t gone away – it’s just been hidden (new figures) The UK driver shortage hasn’t gone away. It’s being masked. Reduced freight movements, driven by ongoing events…

Tamtron’s weighing solutions have been selected as part of the Digiliikkuja project, which is building a new type of mobile learning and development environment for the earthmoving sector in the…

Overseas Forestry Companies have successful summer forestry internships for young people to get an insight into what forestry has to offer. Could this help to encourage more young people to…

Successful training programme from VMS is helping to grow the next generation An employee new to vegetation management is reaping the rewards of a dedicatedtraining and development programme thanks to…