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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…

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…

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…

The wrong choice of base machine shows up quickly in forestry. You see it in rutting on a wet bank, in time lost getting between blocks, or in a harvester…

A near miss in the wood rarely comes down to one dramatic failure. More often it starts with something ordinary – a machine parked on poor ground, a radio check…

Windblown spruce trees are a breeding ground for spruce bark beetle infestation. New research shows that root cutting can impair the trees’ suitability as brood material and thus reduce the…

A harvesting job can be priced, planned and machine-ready – then held up by one basic question: are you actually allowed to fell the timber? That is where the felling…