Steyr Cable Crane in action
Photograph is courtesy of Inverness, Ross and Skye Forest District and staff at their Fort Augustus office.
Unfortunately no information on these photographs of the Steyr in action (two images). This first image gives a good view of the roadside base with machines placed on either side of the cable crane to handle the unsned Sitka spruce trees.
On the far side is a Logma stroke processor designed to remove the branches and cut the tree stem into logs and other products. The Hymac with a grapple crane head moved the logs from the processor to the log piles.
The trees look very rough and it must have been difficult to work when the branches and logs piles up high. Can anyone describe the operation in more detail and how it progressed? Also name the location and operators? See large photograph.
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Groups: Forestry in Action, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes
In Boyd's ownership the Logma boom was mounted on a Massey Ferguson/Hymac excavator base (from the era when both those manufacturers were owned by IBH), possibly a 450, painted red, and sign written as the 'Blaich Processor'.
Comment left on 25 January 2016 at 15:06 by David Shearer