Unknown make of Four Wheel Loader with hydraulic crane
The image is from a collection of slides and photographs ‘rescued from the skip’ and handed to Forestry Memories. Generally very little information with or about them and for details we will have to rely on readers’ memories or geographical knowledge.
This image was taken from a very dark photo slide and proved very difficult to see the detail. The four wheel tractor base with no cab and a hydraulic crane fitted is very unusual. Does anyone know what make or type of machine this is?
The registration Number is JLC704K but location and people are unidentified. There is another vehicle in the back ground but again very hard to make out detail.
The PDF below shows another view of the working site with the loader in the distance (rear view) and a skidder in the fore ground. It may be that pole length timber is dragged onto the roadside, the poles are cross cut with chainsaws and the loader lifts the cut material onto various product stacks.
Any ideas on skidder make and information on site and people very welcome.
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry in Action, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes
As to where it might be? My guess would be down in the Scottish Borders (Wauchope or Newcastleton), alternatively Wark used this sytem on the English side of the Border, where skidding pole length from clear fell was a regular practice.
Good health, Bill Comment left on 16 March 2021 at 23:08 by Bill Rayner