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Members of the Finnish Timber Transport Organisation, SKAL Metsä ry along with forestry professionals, arrived at Manchester Airport in May to commence a week-long tour of Wales encompassing various tourist…
A New Era for Bobcat Loaders Unveiled at Demo Days 2026 After last year’s focus on the latest developments in the company’s mini excavator range, the Bobcat Demo Days 2026…
In the UNESCO Spreewald Biosphere Reserve, a log corduroy road is currently being constructed using round timber to enable low-impact access to a wetland area. A Komatsu 951XC harvester equipped…
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…
For most contractors, the decision sits on three things at once – the timber in front of you, the base machine behind the head, and the cost of keeping the…
A harvester stopped at the stump is not just an inconvenience. It is lost production, a waiting forwarder, a haulage plan slipping by the hour and a contractor still carrying…
The woodchip biomass market UK contractors and suppliers are working in now is a very different beast from the one many expected a few years back. The woodchip biomass market…
If you are pricing a new harvester, trying to keep an older forwarder earning, or working out how to get more timber roadside with fewer hold-ups, forestry technology trends stop…