Forestry Memories

Kockums Forwarder on the move

Kockums Forwarder on the move

Date Added: 09 May 2020 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1990 Picture No: 4691

Photograph is courtesy of Jim Christie, Crook of Devon, a former senior mechanical engineer in the Forestry Commission.

This Kockums forwarder with a Cranab 60 crane is receiving some attention in the workshop. Can anyone identify whether this is an 84-31 or 84-35 machine the latter being a larger capacity forwarder?

Some 84-31 Kockums had their chassis extended out to the rear to accommodate more easily two bays of three metre pulp. This one does not appear to have any chassis modification.

Can anyone identify the location and year ?

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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes

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When one of these arrived at Torrachilty to replace the 'Mini Brunette', it proved to be a brute of a machine and prone to either cutting the site to ribbons or toppling over! I wonder if Donsie (ex Contin, Black Isle, Easter Ross) would care to comment.
Bill Comment left on 09 May 2020 at 16:09 by Bill Rayner
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