Torbjörn Johnsen commented on the post, Beaver management – important issue in sustainable forestry (Video) 2 days, 12 hours ago
Sorry Richard, Got the wrong picture. Here’s a real beaver (fiber castor)
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Beaver management – important issue in sustainable forestry (Video) 4 days, 13 hours ago
Here is an interesting video about beavers and how the beaver can (or can’t) live together with humans and our forestry business. It’s from the European Union development project WAMBAF (Water Management in […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Felling in west Wales in the forum Logging and Felling 1 week, 5 days ago
Hi Muz! Nice to see you here at fotrestry.com! The forest you’re working in looks almost like a djungle with all the weed and windling things. What will this wood be used for?
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Usewood Combi Master – small machine for thinning 4 weeks ago
Read the story about how forest owner Anders Hemgren in Stockholm bought a new Usewood Combi Master forest machine. Anders had never operated a forest machine or a crane before. Now he runs his own harvester in […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Kaiser S12 – The Alp Climbing machine clear the power line 4 weeks ago
Some weeks ago, I had the pleasure to see a Kaiser S12 machine in operations. It’s an extreme versatile machine, normally used to climb the Alps for different kind of jobs. I visited one of the few machines that a […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, EcoLog 560E CTL-harvester in spruce thinning 1 month ago
Here is a short video from an EcoLog 560E machine demo in spruce thinning. It’s a 560E harvester with a LogMax 4000T head and a 574E forwarder doing the job. The site is a 45+ year old spruce on good soil in […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, How many Ponsse machines produced per year? 1 month, 3 weeks ago
In Finland, every thousand of Ponsse machines produced are celebrated. That was also the case when machine no. 14,000 rolled out of the factory late January 2019. I thought it might be interesting to see how long […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Sampo-Rosenlew appoints new CEO from forest machine company 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Finnish agriculture and forest machine manufacturer Sampo-Rosenlew announces that Jussi Malmi will take over as new CEO of the company from 1st of February. Jussi recently came from a position as CEO of the forest […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Forest machine sales in Finland 2018 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Forestry.com will take a look at the forest machine sales in 2018, World market sales for CTL-machines. Today we start with Finland. After Russia and Sweden, Finland is number three in size of CTL-markets World […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Second thinning with Malwa 560H thinning crew 2 months ago
See this Malwa 560H in our second article and video about commercial thinning with small CTL-machines. This harvester operate in a small thinning crew where a Malwa 560F forwarder is doing the haulage. First […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Commercial thinning with small harvester Terri 34C 8wd 2 months, 1 week ago
Small, in stand operating harvesters and forwarders are rather popular in Sweden. They are mainly used for thinning operations in young stands. Terri 34C is one of those small machines used. Terris small forest […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen commented on the post, Video from a Vida sawmill in Sweden – now acquired by Canfor 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks for your comment Low impact Canadian harvester! I think Vida has a good reputation here in Sweden. They buy all their wood from private (individual) forest owners in strong competition with other sawmills and forest owner association. So they must behave to get their wood. Maybe they can give some positive influence to Canfor😀
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, New Swedish Forestry Expo challenge the Elmia Wood 2021 3 months, 1 week ago
The Swedish association for suppliers of mobile machinery launched a new forestry show: Swedish Forestry Expo in June 2021. It will be an international, static trade show, mainly for CTL-machinery from […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Video from a Vida sawmill in Sweden – now acquired by Canfor 4 months, 1 week ago
This week Canfor corporation announced that they will acquire 70% of the stake in Swedens largest private owned sawmill company Vida AB. Forestry.com paid a visit at one of Vidas samwills in Sweden last year. Here […]
Hello fellow forestry workers. I live and work in a Canfor dominated forestry town. Our forestry practices are poor in Canada and Canfor is a clear cut machine. Please guard your forests and protect your harvesting rates. Trust me! Google their track record here in Canada. Stay safe out there.
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Thanks for your comment Low impact Canadian harvester! I think Vida has a good reputation here in Sweden. They buy all their wood from private (individual) forest owners in strong competition with other sawmills and forest owner association. So they must behave to get their wood. Maybe they can give some positive influence to Canfor😀
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, SP 661LF harvesting head at Rottne H21D (video) 5 months ago
This summer we had a chance to visit a demo of SP latest harvesting head – the SP 661LF. It was mounted at a Rottne H21D wheeled harvester which has power enough to produce in rough spruce logging. The SP 661LF […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Forest fires in Sweden – huge areas burned in 2018 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The summer 2018 is already now marked as a historical warm and dry summer as well in Sweden as in many other countries in Europe. July has never been as hot as this year since collection of Swedish weather data […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, A Visit to the Valtra Factory in Suolahti, Finland 10 months, 1 week ago
Forestry.com has recently visited the Valtra factory in Finland. We spent almost a week touring around in the country. The purpose was to check out some of the abundance of forestry machinery and technology that […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Rotator manufacturer Indexator sets the forest world to spin 11 months, 2 weeks ago
There’s a small village just west of Umeå in northern Sweden, which might very well be the densest area of forest technology in the world. I’m referring to the town of Vindeln, where companies such as Vimek and […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Finnish forest machine market 2017 compared to the Swedish 12 months ago
Forestry.com has previously presented statistics from the Swedish forwarder market. Now, we have also gotten hold of registration statistics from the Finnish forest machinery market, and it’s a highly in […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Hultdins cut and grapple more wood than anyone 1 year ago
Last year, Fredrik and I were touring the northern parts of Sweden and took the opportunity to go to Malå to visit the company Hultdins. They are one of many examples of Swedish export companies with an […]
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Not sure why your showing a picture of otters in the introduction ?
Sorry Richard, Got the wrong picture. Here’s a real beaver (fiber castor)