APF 1990 – Held in the Midlands - Silvatec
Association of Professional Foresters – National Forestry Machinery Demonstration is held every two years. The image is from a photograph collection that was originally stored at Kincardine Forest District.
There are no details about the machines other than some names. This period saw the energetic burst of timber harvesting machine ideas with many different types of harvesting heads matched with both wheeled and tracked bases. Historically these were important stages in the evolution of mechanised harvesting.
A selection of Silvatec head images. Fairly certain the gentleman standing in the background in one of the PDF images below is Pete Collin, North Scotland Operational Mechanical Engineer based in Inverness.
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Groups: Timber harvesters, processors, forwarders and cable cranes