Kenora Forest Products can cut wood and the Kenora iLevel Weyerhaueser plant can cut its energy costs thanks to successful applications announced Thursday night.
When economic factors dictated that McCumber Forest Products in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, change its focus from trucking to cutting timber, David and Brian McCumber started out with used equipment until they learned the business. When they started upgrading that equipment recently, however, they chose a Log Max XT head for their new TimberPro 630, thinking that it would improve their efficiency…….and they were right.
Caterpillar has introduced two new tracked machines for forestry applications, the 325C FM and 330C FM. The new machines are designed to be versatile, efficient and durable in delimbing, log loading and road building applications.
The John Deere and Hitachi joint venture in Canada has been a huge success and manufactures machines that are truly multipurpose: excavator frames are modified into forest machines. In recent years the DHSP Swing Machines also gained a solid foothold in Russia.
Caterpillar has introduced new zero-tail swing (ZTS) and full-tail swing (FTS) machines. The new 511, 521, 522 and 532 track feller bunchers and track harvesters feature zero tail swing, while the 541, 551 and 552 feature full tail swing.
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