Highlander Forwarder extracting thinnings
Photograph courtesy of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District with particular help from Lesley Hutcheson, Newton.
This Highlander assembled by James Jones is evidently owned by the Forestry Commission and is possibly working in either Culbin or Roseisle in manual felled Scots pine thinnings. Unfortunately no number plates, FC numbers or driver is featured and identification of site, year and location are problematic. See PDF for another limited view.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Groups: Forestry in Action, Northeast Scotland , Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes
2 Comments
Note the 360 degree rotation grab on the Cranab loader ideal for this type of thinnings, its unusual to see such a large forwarder at this type of work, must have been a nightmare to get turned in at the end of the racks.
Comment left on 19 October 2017 at 20:29 by Leslie Phillip
A 360 degree rotating grab was a great advantage when loading pulp wood in the rack roads, if the standard grab was used the wrong way round that meant slowly moving the forwarder back or forward whilst removing the billet to the trailer.
Comment left on 20 October 2017 at 17:34 by Leslie Phillip
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