Monday 23 March 2015

Harvester (Forestry Equipment)

A harvester is a type of self-propelled heavy forestry vehicle machine with a cutting head attachment that is capable of felling and processing stems employed in cut-to-length logging operations for felling, delimbing, and bucking a tree to desired lengths.


It is typically employed together with a forwarder that hauls the logs to a roadside landing.



The machine, powered by
a diesel engine, is all wheeldrive and fitted with a
hydraulic loader onto which is mounted a harvester
head. This is equipped with a chain saw to fell the
tree and cut the log into lengths, feed rollers to move
the tree through the head, knives to remove branches
and a device to measure the length of the logs.

KOMATSU Harvester 901TX

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