Harvesting

RJ Fukes Forestry Services are the UK and Irish distributors for the full range of Logset equipment and have recently been offering the 12H GTE Hybrid harvester with a TH

When harvesting in rough forests, an operator can face several challenges. For example, trees that need to be cut from two directions, root flares that are too wide for the

The Keto-150 Karate harvesting head been developed as a multifunction harvester head suitable for treating large trees in mountain forests for 14 – 15 ton base machines. Wide opening grippers

Jim Wilmer and Sons Timber Harvesting are offering a selection of used harvesting equipment for sale. The equipment for sale is surplus to requirements as much of Jim’s fleet is

By Caroline Schweitzer Just a few miles northwest from Longview, Washington, second generation logger Frank Chandler of C&C Logging and his crew are working in a dense stand full of

I love watching horses working in the forest – it projects me right back to when I was a youngster spending much of my time with a big white Welsh

John Deere is launching redesigned jib boom options equipped with a hidden hose extension for forwarders with CF5, CF7 and CF7S booms. The redesigned jib booms bring a clear improvement

The Komatsu photo contest has ended. Many thanks to you who have produced a huge amount of photographic material for use on an appropriate occasion in the last couple of

Andy Read is a timber harvesting contractor who carries out thinning and clearfell work in southern England using his Gremo harvester and forwarder. I recently visited Andy on a hardwood

The first fully mobile timber harvester was the PIKA model 75. It was built in 1974 by Sakari Pinomäki, a Finnish systems engineer and inventor who pioneered the mechanised forest