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Systems and controls

In the last two decades, much has changed for the better in Oregons forests. Recent
innovations in logging methods
combine with forest science to improve techniques for forest operations, including: low-
impact harvesting, reducing fire
Risk, keeping forests looking healthy, well-designed road access, protecting streams,
and enhancing wildlife habitat.
The latest technology makes sustainable forestry and ecosystem management possible
during harvesting, roading,
Transportation and the full life-cycle of a forest. The growing and harvesting of trees is
an effective tool to sustain
Desired forest resources over timetimber, water, wildlife, fish, recreation and
aestheticsthats sustainable forest
Management!
The sophisticated machinery in the forest today has surprising capabilities.

Self-Leveling Machine. Undercarriage tracks with the terrain slope, while machine
body remains balanced & level.
Reduces waste and worker use of chainsaws; improves quality, production, safety and
environmental protection.

Low Ground Pressure Undercarriages. Advanced mechanical engineering in todays
purpose-built forestry equipment
Is lighter, the weight is evenly distributed over a larger footprint, wide gripping wheels or
wide tracks yield low pressure,


purpose-built suspensions balance machine weight, and electronic drive-systems
improve power control & tractionall
Which combine reduce the forestry machine ground.

Ergonomic Operator Cab/Controls. The operator cabs in forestry heavy equipment
are now
Designed for comfort, efficiency, and function. Operator cabs reduce long-term physical
and
mental wear & tear on the operator. Improved ergonomic features include: seating;
controls;
work visibility, range-of-motion, positioning, and climate control. These improved
features
Enhance operator health, safety, environmental protection, and performance.

Forwarder. This purpose-built forestry machine operates off-road, where it moves
through a harvested area to pick-up
Logs typically cut by a harvester-processor, and then carries the logs on a rear bunk to
unload at the roadside log
Landing. An on-board log heel-grapple and boom is used to load & unload logs
loading grapple may also load log
Trucks. The machine works in thinning immature forests, has a high-clearance wheeled
undercarriage, which enhances
Performance, environmental protection, and safety. Reduces workers needed to set
chokers on logs.


Log Loader Attachment, Yarder. This purpose built attachment readily converts a log
loader shovel into a small
Yarder machine, for skyline cable logging. A small-log, tracked cable lifter with a
boom; this mobile short-distance


Machines cable is rigged from the boom to the harvest area below the road; a carriage
rides the cable and connects to
Logs using additional cables; logs or small trees are lifted and carried on slopes uphill
from the stump to the roadside
Landing area. Several figurations possible.
Semi-truck 12-wheel log hauler, pulling a hay rack short-log trailer; semi-truck hauls
30-short logs; hay-rack trailer hauls 30-short logs from forest to mill. Trailers come in
different configurations, depending on log lengths & weights. Truck equipped with on-
board electronic scales.

Self-Loader Log Truck
Semi-truck, 18-wheel log hauler equipped with loading boom; truck driver operates
loader heel-boom grapple to load logs; semi-truck & long-log trailer hauls 40-long logs
from forest to mill. Truck equipped with on-board electronic scales.