Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Echo CS 501 SX – a Japanese 50-cc saw 2 days, 18 hours ago
We tested some Echo chainsaws and wrote a summarizing article about that a while ago. In that article we promised to get back and go deeper in each of the tested models. So, here is the first one.
Echo CS 501 […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, What happened to Silvatec? 4 days, 12 hours ago
Silvatec was a Danish manufacturer of forest machines until 2017 when the company went bankrupt. In 2008, the Russian company Machinery & Industrial Group NV purchased Silvatec and ran it for almost ten years. […]
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Per Jonsson started the topic It's like Christmas Eve again! in the forum Chainsaws 1 week ago
Sometimes you feel like a child in a toy shop. Like when I got to try out five chainsaws I never tried before. Four of the them were Echo saws. It was the first time I ever touched a Echo saw. And one was the Stihl MS 201 C-M. I did try Stihl saws before but never this model. It was a nice experience.
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Test of Echo chainsaws 1 week ago
The sister site Skogsforum.se sometimes get chainsaws sent to them with the message “please test those and write about them for the Swedish market”. Recently this was done by the Echo importer for the Nordic cou […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Rottne see the light in the tunnel 1 week, 2 days ago
2020 was a challenge for all, including Rottne Industri AB who spent time and money in investing for the future during the year of the pandemic. When looking back now, it seems that Rottne made the right […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Self-driving vehicles 1 week, 3 days ago
There has been lots of discussions about self-driving, or autonomous, forest machines lately. The forestry business is looking at this to meet increasing difficulties to recruit operators to forest machines. There […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, KWF-Tagung postponed!! 2 weeks, 1 day ago
By the beginning of March we wrote that KWF in Germany had decided to go ahead with their fair in Schwarzenborn as planned. Now, they inform that they haven’t been able to convince the local authorities that their […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Firewood cutting as a part time job 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Firewood making is a lifestyle, a hobby or something necessary to keep you and your family warm. There are tons of equipment for firewood makers on the market. We have written a couple of articles about that (see […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, The Husqvarna museum – did you ever have a Husky hotdog? 3 weeks, 2 days ago
In forestry, the brand Husqvarna, or Husky, is well known for chainsaws and other equipment for logging. But the company has been around for over 300 years. It all started with guns, but as peace spread out in […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Pioneers on biochar – visit to a biochar production farm 3 weeks, 4 days ago
There has to be better ways than just burning the chips to heat the house? was the question that Edvard Hamilton asked himself when he was standing by his chip boiler at the farm seven years ago. Now he knows […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Visit to a woodchip fueled combined heating and power plant (CHP) 4 weeks ago
Fuel from the forest is still a third assortment. To produce sawlogs and pulpwood is the main purpose of forestry. If there are any “leftovers”, that could be suitable for fuel. But the market for wood fuels fro […]
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Per Jonsson replied to the topic mechanical tree felling in the forum Logging and Felling 1 month ago
Looks nice Muz! I hope you won’t gain weight now in your new comfy life 🙂
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, The forestry shows in 2021 – What´s up? 1 month ago
2020 was the year when almost all forestry shows postponed to 2021, creating a complicated situation for the shows that were originally planned for 2021. Now we are in 2021, and some shows have already moved to […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Another firewood maker’s friend 1 month ago
When looking into the firewood equipment market it´s like entering another World. A jungle actually, where there is so much to see and choose from. Most equipment is expensive and efficient (hopefully), but you […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Yet another new planter underway? 1 month ago
It becomes more and more obvious that planting by hand is slowly becoming too expensive. One sign of that is that it turns up new ideas on how to plant with machines every now and then. The latest (as far as I […]
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Per Jonsson started the topic A giant in the yard in the forum Bioenergy 1 month, 1 week ago
There is something about sturdy chippers that I like. I don’t know what but it may be just as simple as to see an efficient machine in action. Like this one:
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Efficient chipping with a CBI 8400 1 month, 1 week ago
The cold has (temporary?) left us here in Sweden, but the district heating and power plants still need woodchips. We visited a terminal where miles of piles are transferred into environmentally friendly fuels for […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, KWF test report on Husky battery brush cutters 1 month, 1 week ago
The German Centre for Forest Work & Technology (Kuratorium Für Waldarbeit & Forsttechnik), KWF, do testing of forestry equipment on a scientific level. The result of the tests is presented in a report where the […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, The 18th KWF Tagung in Germany goes ahead as planned! 1 month, 1 week ago
In a press release on the 25th February the KWF board informed that the forestry trade fair KWF Tagung/KWF Expo shall go ahead as planned on 30. June to 3. July 2021. The conference, that normally take place […]
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Per Jonsson wrote a new post, Bruks – mobile chippers demo 1 month, 1 week ago
It was a while ago now, before the pandemic in December 2019, that Bruks invited to a demo day to show their mobile chippers. Torbjörn at Skogsforum.se was there, and as the winter was cold here, at least for a […]
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