the easter rabbit dropped off some oversize eggs.
After six months of back and forth we bit the bullet and moved up in the food chain from handfell/process.
Koehring Tracked Harvester with Rosin Processing head. Ugly and built like a Sherman tank.
Package deal of a CAT525"A" and a 322BL.
Most our work is smaller pine plantations producing cut to length material. Sites vary from an acre on the side of a mountain to dead flat acrage. A tilt base harvester would have been nice, but for our budget they are just plain worn out. We settled on this combination of skidder/loader rather than using a forwarder as it gave us the most flexibility. We can use the Koehring as a feller, or hand fall if it gets too steep. Throw in a bit of shovel logging with tree length skidding and landing processing and hopefully we are covered for most scenarios.
Fingers crossed.
DTR
