Highland Bear conversion by James Jones Ltd
Photograph is courtesy of Jim Christie, Crook of Devon, a former senior mechanical engineer in the Forestry Commission.
Another forwarding trailer and grab combination ready for dispatch to a harvesting forest. These machines were very popular and worked well on firmer sites and along roadways particularly when timber was brought to roadside in the length and cross cut on or near the road.
Over time as the tree conversion was more generally carried out in the wood and purpose built forwarders took over the bulk of the carrying these machines decreased in numbers.
Groups: Forestry Areas, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes
Group: Forestry Areas - 3245 pictures
2 Comments
Machines like this, especially with a Igland double drum winch fitted were the brute force in forest operations back in the day.
Comment left on 11 May 2020 at 10:58 by leslie phillip
We have an 1184 county J Jones Conv with Cranab and 24 foot extending trailer we have found very useful in our tree surgery Business
Comment left on 19 February 2022 at 20:32 by M witney
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