From Tuesday, Forst BW is organizing a theme week under the motto "careful forest management". The use of heavy machinery will be demonstrated in the Schussental, among other places. At the beginning of the timber harvest, Forst BW, the state's forestry company, organizes a theme week. There are various dates in Baden-Württemberg under the motto "careful forest management". In the Schussental, for example, the use of heavy machinery will be...
The Swedish startup AirForestry, together with Sveaskog, is developing a prototype drone to be used in thinning. The carbon device will weigh around 80 kg with a wingspan of 6.2 m. It transports a 60kg lightweight harvester unit that is said to be able to fell logs up to 0.06m³. This could work as follows: the drone, batteries and harvester unit are transported to the site of operation on a car trailer. There you position the drone over the...
There are enough Christmas trees available to consumers again this year. This has to do with the good weather conditions so far, because there were hardly any dangerous late frosts in spring. However, the rising costs for production, wages and logistics do not make it easy for the approximately 2,000 family businesses in Germany to make Christmas tree cultivation profitable. Nevertheless, according to estimates by the Federal Association of...
The pulp and paper industry, rebuilt after the Soviet Union by foreign investors, has already suffered greatly from the sanctions. In this direction in developed markets, Russia is now "successfully replacing China." Sanctions could deprive Russia of almost a tenth of its timber harvesting and half of its plywood exports, reports The Bell. The disruption of traditional distribution channels has had a significant impact on export-oriented...
Offered by Service AMS, the BROY30 excavator mulcher, manufactured by BeaverTech, will allow you to maintain your land effortlessly. Its ultra-robust design and its lightness make it, according to the manufacturer, the shredder par excellence for excavators from 2.7 t to 12 t. It is offered in autonomous version, with gasoline engine, and in hydraulic version. Equipped with a 20 HP Honda petrol engine, the tool provides power equivalent to the...
What happened? A millionaire robbery has been taking place in the South Macrozone and that is the theft of wood. A gang of criminals would be behind this, a crime that has increased due to the violence in the area. Carabineros has carried out different operations for the prompt arrest of "criminal companies" dedicated to this type of work and that, according to the police institution, would have to do with organizations dedicated to crime in...
The transportation industry continues to electrify, gradually covering all distances and all types of cargo. The latest? Scania, with a first timber transport truck. A subsidiary of the Traton Group, which itself belongs to the Volkswagen group, Scania AB may have more than 110 years of experience in the field of commercial vehicles, but it only started to embark on the electrified path very recently with the presentation of a first regional...
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture will invest 900 million euros in climate-adapted forest management over the next five years. The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has now approved the corresponding funds. With the new program, forest managers are rewarded for additional climate and biodiversity protection, as stated in a statement from the ministry. The Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, explains: “Our...
The 534 is a durable high-performance harvester head well adapted to the Tigercat 1165 As part of Tigercat's overall strategy to provide complete logging systems for short timber, the company has released the new harvester head 534. With a base weight of 1,380 kg, the 534 is matched with Tigercat's harvester 1165 and sized for optimal productivity at a trunk diameter of 150-500 mm. The 534 is a three-wheel drive unit with a triangular wheel...
From time to time new forwarders appear on the market. But mostly by companies that are already known as forwarder manufacturers. So when a company that has never had a forwarder in stock introduces a new forwarder, it's big - even if the forwarder, in this case, is small… Fors LF 8. Fors MW founder Leif Fors had a dream. It was to create a forwarder, something like the Mini Bruunett, which was his role model. He had had great success...
