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Harvesting is a general term for cutting, processing, and extracting timber from stump to roadside ready for transporting to wood processing plants.
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We cover all aspects of forestry, from ground preparation through to the end product. Visiting harvesting sites, contractors, hauliers, and timber processing plants keeps us abreast of all the latest news and technology. Our team of professional operators carry out product testing of the latest accessories and equipment to improve workers safety and offer honest and unbiased reviews.
Improving the durability of its machines, John Deere now features RENCRAFT® Super Hard Coat polycarbonate windows as a standard offering on its G-Series harvesters and G-Series forwarders. Providing enhancements over
New PONSSE Frame and Crane care for service agreements Frame and Crane care is a new extended protection for forest machines that have an PONSSE Active Care service agreement The
As it gears up to procure harvesting, extraction and chainsaw services for a new round of contracts, Forestry and Land Scotland is surveying forestry contractors to help it scope out
The Generation 36 is the new series of the pm Trac system tractor. The optics are almost unchanged, but there is a lot of new technology. A new machine presentation
De-bogging Forwarder Just like the fire brigade, Arto Vuorijärvi from Kauhava and his shiny red Scania lorry loaded up with his specially built Rottne F12 de-bogging forwarder, are fuelled up
Adam Hylén details how high-performance steel provides a low-carbon footprint for forestry vehicles With the COP26 climate change summit scheduled in November 2021, political pressure is building to improve sustainability
Is forest harvesting increasing in Europe? Is forest harvesting increasing in Europe? Apparently so, but not as much as reported last July in a controversial study published in Nature. The
Smooth Boom Control for Tracked Feller Bunchers and Harvesters John Deere announces the release of Smooth Boom Control for its M-Series Tracked Feller Bunchers and MH-Series Tracked Harvesters. Developed in…
Lumber Prices Soar, But Logs Are Still Dirt Cheap Lumber prices have soared to records. Demand for wood is skyrocketing. The shares of wood suppliers are surging. And yet, trees
Ponsse Scorpion’s new Future Cabin cockpit, launched in February, has won the product design award in the internationally acclaimed Red Dot design competition. The win came in the product design