Spreading The Load
In 2006, Ian Howie, who had previously been an agricultural contractor, saw an opportunity to become involved in the transportation of timber from harvesting sites within the forest to stacking…
RJ Fukes Demo Days
RJ Fukes Forestry Services hosted a demonstration, early November, of the Doherty Group’s Logset 6HP GTE/TH65 harvester near Port Laoise in Southern Ireland. The Doherty Group was formed in 2004…
The Day We Caught A Bigfoot
Hohenloher Spezial-Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, have been producing forestry machines since 1967, at their headquarters in Neu-Kupfer, after moving from their original factory in Waldenburg in 1995. In 2005…
Eco Log and Gremo become one
Eco Log and Gremo are now planning for a common future as a strong and comprehensive operator in the forest machine business. A first step has been taken as an…
Logset 12H GTE Hybrid Trials
In the June issue of Forest Machine Magazine read about the first UK trials that we carried out with the Logset 12H GTE Hybrid/TH75 supplied by RJ Fukes Forestry Services.…
Logset 8 H GTE Hybrid for Sedu Ähtäri Tuomarniemi
The new Logset 8 H GTE Hybrid Harvester has been delivered to Sedu Ähtäri Tuomarniemi forest machine school. At the same time, Sedu Ähtäri also acquired a Logset simulator to…
Personal Protection Screen For The Pfanzelt Moritz
Pfanzelt Maschinenbau GmbH had a large display and demonstration area at Austrofoma and were demonstrating the manoeuvrable and versatile four-wheel drive special Felix forwarder, PM Trac, Logline and S-Line trailers,…
MFT 240 6×6 Fire Combi Machine
An item which caught my attention while exploring the demo circuit at Austroforma was the MFT 240 6×6 Fire Combi Machine manufactured by the company Bijol. My initial thought was…
Konrad Kombi Yarder
Last year, at Euroforest, I first saw the Konrad Combi Yarder, something completely original as the skyline tower was mounted behind a 14 tonne Liebherr R914 excavator. I spoke to…
Measuring wheel trial continues.
Peter Williamson Jnr has been trialling the Z30 SC measuring wheel from Balmec Forestfor the last four months with positive feed- back. The wheel has performed exceptionally well in the…