Inside Chapelhall machine workshop – new timber harvester combination
The image is from a photograph collection that was originally stored at Kincardine Forest District.
The previous image is thought to be the outside view of the work shop location. This image and the PDFs attached below show and extensive piece of work taking place on a large machine.
Any information would be very welcome – could be as far as north England and year is also unknown? Can the people be named?
The base machine has some similarities to a Twose Forwarder. The plan appears to be to remove the bunks add a Foresteri 1278 crane and fit a harvesting head to the end. The head may be an AFM model (Lako?) but no name is visible except on the operating panel being fitted within the cab.
See the PDF selection link below – again any details on the machine types would be very welcome.
This period in the 1990s was a very significant development period for many timber harvesting machine companies and also for contractors who constructed various machine combinations in an effort to find modest cost machines that could work well in British conditions. The images within the PDF below graphically show the hydraulic and electronic complexity of these machines. A real testament to the high skill levels of the original designers, manufacturers and also the local technicians and mechanics who worked on them.
More details and information would be very welcome. Chapelhall see comments
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Groups: Buildings in Forests, Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes
I remember it being in there possibly for the conversion from forwarder to harvester. Comment left on 20 June 2023 at 15:15 by David Preston