Hypro processors/ harvesters

[william petts]

Hypro processors / harvesters.

Was flicking through the forestry journal and I saw a piece on the machine I mentioned above and I became curious of what it was like, saw a couple of vids on you tube and it looks like a blinding little machine ideal for a small tight thinning job and im guessing it would be a lot more cost effective than the big machines, I don't do any form of harvesting apart from a little bit of copping every now and then but I just wondered if anyone on here has one or thinks like I do they look pretty cool machines!

[Brushcutter]

Bed processors have been around for ages. You if you look around can pick up an old Nokka processor for sensible money. Roller head ones are good but its the stroke processor that's a little better on the knobbly hardwood.

 

The guys who did some of the PAWS in Broxborne woods did it with a stroke processor on a 5 tonne digger.

 

I'm a fan of the little harvester head on the crane over the bed processor with tracks rather than roller feed. Although bed processing is something i've never used. Unless you fell it i can see it being a real PITA to clean up after someone else, hence my favour of the valmet head set up.

 

 

Oh check out the price of a bed processor at APF in September they aint cheap.

[TobyAllen]

I nearly bought one last year, but decided against it and went for an excavator with a stroke head instead.

They look good, and I think in certain situations a hypro would be ideal. Though they are limited in the working position and where the brash goes. Once you factor in the cost of the base machine, as brush cutter said, they ain't cheap.

[elfinwood saws]

How much do they cost?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I nearly bought one last year, but decided against it and went for an excavator with a stroke head instead.

They look good, and I think in certain situations a hypro would be ideal. Though they are limited in the working position and where the brash goes. Once you factor in the cost of the base machine, as brush cutter said, they ain't cheap.

 

This.

 

Not cost effective compared to a excavator conversion which will do far more.

[rovers90]

The 300 is £25k, the 450 which has a crane is closer to £50k and I'm not sure on the 700.

[Wood wasp]

Buy my kesla stroke processor instead for only £10,000 !

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/forestry-woodland-management/57942-purpose-built-forwarder-thread-osa-fmg-bruunett-entracon-norcar-logset-etc-50.html#post1468110

Edited June 18, 2016 by Wood wasp

[better dayz]

Does the processor have a measuring system or how does it work

[Wood wasp]

The stroke processor has marks on the boom. Count the strokes.. Two full strokes is 2.5m pallet, two full strokes plus additional stroke to 50cm mark is a 3m chipwood/pulp and so on. Absolute simplicity, won't break any production records but just plods away and the tonnage mounts up. Ideal for a small company or estate

[rovers90]

Hypro has a small computer which you calibrate to length you wish to cut. However, a few things we have discovered is you have to stop it manually at the desired length as it appears on the display. Also if the the wheels are gripping the tree as it goes through and for any reason the tree sticks, the bottom wheel inset in the bed of the machine can keep on turning and this is the measuring wheel so it can clock up distance even though the tree itself is not moving. Teething problems I think they're called!!