Thinning Spruce Woodlands with the New Harvester

We have been using the new harvester to thin some of the Spruce woodlands on Baddinsgill. It has hugely impressed with its agility and compact size, easily moving around the stand and only requiring the removal of a single rack of trees in this young first thinning.

Our tractor and forwarding trailer combination has also shown its capability in the tight woodland, extracting from the single racks and leaving minimal ground damage.

Below are some pictures of Treeline's machines in action.

Harvester emerging from the trees and selecting the next stem for removal

Picking a route across the racks to form an extraction route

Working down a narrow rack having removed only one row of trees

Processing a double header

Harvester picking a tree for removal

Light coming through the racks with timber stacked ready for extraction

Tractor and forwarding trailer lifting timber from the narrow racks

Loading saw logs from a central ride

Clearing timber from the sunny ride

Winding up a narrow ride with a load of timber