Purpose-built and Track-based Harvester Thread

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Thought I'd start one in the same vein as the Forwarder thread.

 

Found this on the tube!

 

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[penfold]

Nice little machine. Handy for thinnings I would guess.

[Wood wasp]

A Makeri from memory, nineteen eighties I think. They never really took off, presumably due to limited reach and the rapid advancements in harvesting technology happening at the time.

Edited April 6, 2015 by Wood wasp

[codlasher]

Wow! I remember that machine. Yes it was a great little tool in early softwood thinnings. Tillhill bought one to use in some of the stands where I was working at that time. It could drive backwards holding each stick which then fell nicely. No more hangers!

codlasher

[SamWhiting12]

I think I would get a bit sea sick in that haha, moves like a boat.

[slack ma girdle]

What a fantastically simple machine.

[County 764]

Did the Valmet 701 ever appear in the UK forestry?

 

This site has some old videos of forestry machinery

Valmet 701 Cleaning 1993 | Doovi

[Brushcutter]

A tracked Pro silva i think they have a UK agent now. It was a very good machine in the wet. Those pics were in a unfreezing swamp in March. Very nice machine basically a Timberjack 1270 with a few extra bits.

 

The second is their 4 wheel harvester. Something that has never really taken off here. I know their about mainly the Timberjack 870(?) but i'd of thought they would be great for all the smaller wood around the UK and the hardwood too. Guess a 1070 size machine can do more.

 

I have seen the walking JD machine too it lives out the back of a JD dealership in Tampere.

[Elmsdown Forestry]

My 911.4 ready to tackle a hill climb.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

A tracked Pro silva i think they have a UK agent now. It was a very good machine in the wet. Those pics were in a unfreezing swamp in March. Very nice machine basically a Timberjack 1270 with a few extra bits.

 

The second is their 4 wheel harvester. Something that has never really taken off here. I know their about mainly the Timberjack 870(?) but i'd of thought they would be great for all the smaller wood around the UK and the hardwood too. Guess a 1070 size machine can do more.

 

I have seen the walking JD machine too it lives out the back of a JD dealership in Tampere.

 

Pro Silva same as HSM I think?