Forestry Memories

Atlas excavator base with Pika harvester head – Inverness FD

The image is courtesy of Brian Duff, Inverness, Ross and Skye Forest District or as now North Region of Forestry and Land Scotland.

Brian Comments:
‘Inverness Forest District decided to try felling first thinnings using their own staff. Colin Croy and Bill Cameron were trained up on thinning using a Pika harvester which was first go by Atlas into the harvesting world trying to make a purpose built thinning machine. Picture in Meallmore Forest south of Inverness mid 1990’s’

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

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