Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Elmia Wood or Swedish Forestry Expo 2022 in the forum General 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi Ben,
All of the major manufacturers have decided to participate at the Swedish Forestry Expo show 2022. In fact, this show is organized by some of the companies through their association. This also means that they will not be present at the Elmia Wood show. If there will be an Elmia Wood 2022 at all….? Elmia has fired 60% of the staff because…[Read more]-
Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic True colors – of your machine in the forum Harvester 1 year, 10 months ago
Here’s a good video about machine colours. Maybe a little bit early in the year but….
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Where are they used? in the forum Feller Buncher 1 year, 10 months ago
Maybe the standard of CTL was already set when northern forests were eploited and the wood was drived by river floating in late 19th century? Logs were possible to floa, stems wasn’t?
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Can blown down timber be saved? in the forum General 2 years ago
I’ts an easy life to be a forester in Sweden. Only two softwood spices and very little hardwoods. But the landscape is a little bit more boring compare with your hardwoods. And you are better in taking care of the hardwoods over there. If you are interested, you can find a lot of videos at our Youtube channel: youtube.com/skogsforum
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Can blown down timber be saved? in the forum General 2 years ago
Hi Dean! Nice to see you here at Forestry.com! I understand what you’re looking for but I can’t remember I have ever seen someone doing that. To re-errect windthrown trees. But it might be possible if the trees are not to big and if you do it short time after it has fallen. And probably it must bee a tree that have still gave some kind of soil…[Read more]
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Torbjörn Johnsen commented on the post, The Result After Long-Term Testing Stihl MS 500i 2 years, 1 month ago
Great! Good luck with your new gear!
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Ash Dieback in the forum Logging and Felling 2 years, 4 months ago
It’s a really sad situation with the dying ash. Same here in Sweden even if we don’t have so much ash in our forests. Same with elm to. Probably even worser than the ash. What will the next generation be at this site? Thanks for sharing you video!
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic New Here form Sout Dakota in the forum General 2 years, 4 months ago
Hi Gus, nice to see you here! It would be interesting to learn more about forestry in South Dakota.
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic North American coastal forestry in the forum Trees and species 2 years, 7 months ago
What spices do you left and what do you cut?
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Selective thinning, a few of my thoughts. in the forum Logging and Felling 2 years, 7 months ago
Nice work! Where do the wood end up? Small logs for the pulpmill or for energy use?
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Education for the Public in the forum General 2 years, 9 months ago
Hi Bruce! Nice to see you here! I ad this link again as it wasn’t complete in you post: http://www.americasforestswithchuckleavell.com/
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Torbjörn Johnsen commented on the post, The Result After Long-Term Testing Stihl MS 500i 2 years, 9 months ago
What a story Glen! Sorry for your Jonsered an everything that was destroyed by the fire. I hope there is a life also after those horrible bushfires.
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Torbjörn Johnsen posted a new activity comment 2 years, 10 months ago
Very nice feature about your logging work and equipment. I post a link to it here for others to read: https://www.woodbusiness.ca/thinning-bc-logger-finds-sustainable-success-commercial-thinning/
It would be great to see some pics and specs of your small forwarder. Is it something similar in size to the Malwa forwarder, except for the tracks?…[Read more]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Pruning of pine in a 15 years old stand (video) 3 years, 1 month ago
Pruning of pine shouldn’t be done in the fall. But despite that, I went to the forest to take a closer look on how to do. Just to check the tools and the methods.
Here is a video from my pruning work in a 15-year […]
Interesting video, thank you for taking the time to make.
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Koller wedge in the forum Logging and Felling 3 years, 3 months ago
Great video Muz but it looks very dangerous to cut dead trees like the one you show in the video?
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic New downsized Gremo forwarder 750F in the forum Forwarder 3 years, 3 months ago
Cool! It would be nice to see a picture of that machine!
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, Crazy Skidder Competition in the Alps – Les Cognées 3 years, 5 months ago
12 years ago, some skidder loggers in a French Alp village got the idea of starting a “forest event”, as a summer activity in the ski resort Les Gets. Some of the guys were skidder operators and they got the i […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen wrote a new post, New frontrunner at strong Swedish forwarder market 3 years, 5 months ago
Forestry.com presents new data on the Swedish forwarder market for Q1 & Q2 2019. As the last year had poor machine sales in Sweden due to undersupply of machines, this year seems to be significant better. The […]
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Torbjörn Johnsen replied to the topic Fence off hill and seed native woodland in the forum General 3 years, 6 months ago
I suppose Scotts Pine is Pinus Silvestris in latin? That’s the only Pine we have as a natural specie and consistently we just call it Pine (“Tall” in Swedish = Pine).
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Torbjörn Johnsen posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
Great to see you here Everett! Here will come features from our New England/NY tour soon.
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The F4 Dion is built in Quebec Canada. The basic design has been in production since 1968. It’s very strong and we’ll suited to small, gentle wood extraction projects. I’m curious to how I can post images on the forum? Please let me know.
Ian