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European Logging Show Elmia Wood Moves To Biennial Event 

European Logging Show Elmia Wood Moves To Biennial Event  Starting in 2025, Elmia Wood will host its trade fair every two years instead of every four. This change is made possible through a new land agreement at Bratteborgs gård, that extends until 2029, with a...

New From Tigercat: 120 Winch Assist

New From Tigercat: 120 Winch Assist The new Tigercat 120 cable assist, the second model in Tigercat’s cable systems product line, leverages the company’s deep experience in steep slope harvesting systems to create cable systems that complement the ground based...

New From Tigercat: 6500 Chipper

New From Tigercat: 6500 Chipper Tigercat has officially launched 6500 chipper after more than a year of successful field operations involving multiple retail units. The 6500 is a heavy-duty down-swing drum chipper designed for high production and maximum flexibility....

Colorado Biomass Power Plant Set For Auction

Colorado Biomass Power Plant Set For Auction Eagle Valley Clean Energy in Gypsum, Colo. filed for bankruptcy in spring 2024, after the facility closed abruptly in November. Officials report an Illinois real state company has the leading bid to acquire the facility and...

New From Tigercat: 250E Knuckleboom 

New From Tigercat: 250E Knuckleboom  Tigercat has replaced the 250D loader with the new and improved 250E model for tasks such as delimbing, slashing, merchandising and loading trucks. Among other improvements, the latest 250 series iteration has an improved...

Oregon Dept. of Forestry Seeks Operating Loan

Oregon Dept. of Forestry Seeks Operating Loan State forestry officials are seeking changes to the way the state funds firefighting efforts after the agency had to ask the Oregon State Treasury for a $60 million loan to tide the agency over until it can get more money...

Yosemite Seeks New Colorado Feedstock Study

Yosemite Seeks New Colorado Feedstock Study Officials with Yosemite Clean Energy recently announced a $300,000 grant from the USDA Forest Service Wood Innovation Fund that will support a feedstock analysis and a pre-engineering study to develop a wood waste...

New From Waratah: 624HX Harvester Head

New From Waratah: 624HX Harvester Head Waratah Forestry Equipment has launched an all-new HX line with its 624HX harvester heads. Building on generations of Waratah HTH attachments, the new extra-large harvester and loader-processor heads have been redesigned for...

John Deere Rolls Out TimberMatic Maps Auto Pickup Feature For Skidders 

John Deere Rolls Out TimberMatic Maps Auto Pickup Feature For Skidders Industry-exclusive Auto Pickup within John Deere TimberMatic Maps makes it easier for skidder operators to collect production information while enhancing the ability to monitor job progress....

American Loggers Council Gathers In California

American Loggers Council Gathers In California    The American Loggers Council marked its 30th anniversary with its 2024 annual meeting on October 1-4 in Sonora/Jamestown, Calif. The theme of the meeting was “The American Logger: A Legacy of...
Caribou Purchases StumpGeek Software

Caribou Purchases StumpGeek Software

Caribou Software, a forestry software company that services more than 300 timber companies across North America, has announced its acquisition of the StumpGeek forestry software system to extend its product offering to smaller logging contractors and sawmills…

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Canadian Fires Hit Mills, Loggers, Big Acreage

Canadian Fires Hit Mills, Loggers, Big Acreage

What’s being called Canada’s worst-ever spring fire season has torched 9.9 million acres as mills and loggers across the country take extensive downtime as thousands have been evacuated and drifting smoke has blanketed the Northeast U.S…

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Equipment, Repairs, Employees Lead Internet Use

Equipment, Repairs, Employees Lead Internet Use

Responding to the 2023 Timber Harvesting magazine Logger Survey, 70% of loggers from around the country say buying and selling equipment is their most likely use of the internet and social media in their businesses. The next most popular use is learning how other loggers and truckers resolve mechanical issues, say…

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DC Equipment Buys Madill Brand, Assets

DC Equipment Buys Madill Brand, Assets

Renowned logging equipment brand Madill has been acquired by New Zealand-based DC Equipment as the steep slope harvesting specialist seeks to integrate its new generation cable logging systems with Madill’s time-tested equipment and designs. Nicholson Mfg., a long-time sawmill debarker manufacturer, had owned Madill since 2011…

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Oregon Loggers Cause Tiny Fraction Of Fires

Oregon Loggers Cause Tiny Fraction Of Fires

Following the horrible wind-driven conflagrations of 2020, Oregon has seen calmer fire seasons in 2021-22, and a report from 2022 shows Oregon loggers have performed admirably in fire prevention and first-response activities last year, according to a report from the Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF). As noted in the Associated Oregon Loggers Mainline newsletter, there were just 18 total Oregon state land forest fires caused by industrial mechanical equipment in 2022. Thanks to the efforts of Oregon loggers, only 15 acres burned…

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Ponsse Modernizes ERP Solution

Ponsse Modernizes ERP Solution

The new ERP solution has already been successfully implemented in Ponsse’s Swedish and Norwegian subsidiaries. Particular attention has been paid to the user experience, and all functions can be used anywhere in the world, with any device. The new ERP solution is being used for a number of things, such as material and stock management, procurement, sales, deliveries, field work control and maintenance, invoicing, and financial management and reporting. The ERP solution will also be used for aftersales processes, such as spare parts sales and maintenance…

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