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Newsflash – What’s Happening In Forest Engineering?
John Deere Construction and Forestry reports sharply higher profit in 3rd quarter
USA news: Komatsu America has a new forestry dealer for Alabama, Georgia and northwest Florida
New Products - Refinement Of Tigercat Carriers
Tigercat has carried out a number of improvements on their 855C, 860C and 870C tracked carriers. The affected products include the H855C/LH855C harvesters, LS855C shovel logger and the 860C/870C feller bunchers.
Newsflash - What's Happening In Forest Engineering?
John Deere – 1710 forwarder to remain available to some markets
Tigercat – Consolidation of manufacturing facilities
Franklin – Goes off the market
FPInnovations – Biodiesel use in Forestry
Wood Resources International – Global shipments of woodchips 14% down in 2009
Caterpillar – New Prentice SC-57 center post saw for wheeled feller bunchers
Newsflash - What's Happening In Forest Engineering?
Ponsse – Celebrate their 40th birthday!
Caterpillar – Upgrades to 553, 563 and 573 wheeled feller bunchers
Vermeer – SC372 stump cutter
Stihl – Hans Peter Stihl to transfer chair of advisory board to his son in 2013
Seppi M – New Maxisoil crusher and mulcher
Newsflash - What's Happening In Forest Engineering?
Improved chainsaw motors for harvesters
Volvo green truck technology at IAA
FP Innovations – Skidding logs tops forward versus butts forward
Husqvarna – Improved trading conditions
Caterpillar – Enhancements to Cat HF201 and HF221 felling heads for tracked feller bunchers
Recent Research Publications
“The adequacy of falling object protection design criteria for feller bunchers”
“Optimising cable harvesting layout when using variable-length cable roads in central Europe”
“Cost estimates of post harvest forest biomass supply for Canada”
Interesting Information - Comparing The Specifications Of Forest Machines
During equipment selection, we often need to compare the technical specifications of various machines. But downloading or printing masses of spec sheets of different manufactures and machines is very time consuming. Here is a website which allows us to carry out thorough comparisons.
Learn More About - Franklin
We are now looking at the purpose built forestry equipment manufacturers. We move onto our second manufacturer, Franklin.