Launching Komatsu 951XC
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…
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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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…
John Deere is further improving logging productivity and easy operating with new technological solutions for forwarders, including the new Intelligent Boom Control innovations as well as the new single extension…
FARMA LF8-first photos of their new eight-tonne, eight wheel drive forwarder which is a tribute to Leif Fors Leif Fors was the founder of Fors MW and father of FARMA.…
IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT THE SWEDISH FORESTRY EXPO 2023 All John Deere G-series forest machines and the latest harvester head models will be showcased at the fair. This year, the…
BLACK BRUIN HYDRAULIC MOTORS AND ROTATORS SHOWCASED AT THE SWEDISH FORESTRY EXPO During its over 60-year-long history, the Finnish company Black Bruin has delivered innumerable hydraulic drive solutions to manufacturers…
As our forests mature and trees increase in height and girth, they become susceptible to damage from extreme windstorms. Storm Arwen arrived on the 25th of November in 2021 and…
Introducing the Tigercat 612 dual winch skidder. It is specially designed to operate in selective harvesting applications, extracting high value timber in steep or sensitive terrain conditions. The Tigercat 612…
Kesla brings nave drive to the smallest tractor forest trailers Kesla Oyj is a Finnish manufacturer of truck cranes, logging equipment as well as tractor-based forest technology and material handling…
John Deere’s Intelligent Harvester Head Control John Deere’s new Intelligent Harvester Head Control (IHC) facilitates harvesting and improves delimbing quality. The force control of the delimbing knives maintains proper compression…