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Ponsse Manufactures Its 20,000th Machine
The 20,000th Ponsse forest machine has been completed at Ponsse’s factory in Vieremä, Finland—a Ponsse Bear harvester with Ponsse H8 harvester head for Norwegian customer, Lågen Skogsdrift AS. “It’s great to see that machine number 20,000 is coming to Norway and to a customer with whom we have had a…
Stihl Reveals 2023 Hearts of Stihl Grant Recipients
Stihl has announced the winners of the 2023 Hearts of Stihl program, an initiative to care for the environment through the preservation of America’s state parks. The 2023 winners, representing the nation’s six state park regions, were each awarded a $20,000 grant to help fund sustainability, recovery, conservation or environmental education programs…
Logger Lights Up Family Christmas
Zach Emerson, co-owner of Emerson & Sons Logging of Groton, Vt., always wanted to grow Christmas trees. Then in 2016, he learned he and his wife, Tracy, were expecting their first child, a daughter to be named Riley. “So that spring I decided it would be a great time to plant some bare-root balsam fir trees,” he remembers…
Husqvarna Launches Online Learning Platform
Husqvarna is ushering in a new era for online learning with the launch of Pro Insider, a state-of-the-art web-based learning management system providing users with interactive learning opportunities for professional products and solutions, in addition to industry best practices. Husqvarna Pro Insider offers short, high-quality video courses on topics from personal protective equipment (PPE) and equipment usage to product technology and accessories…
Northeast Loggers Group Expands
Officials with longtime loggers trade association, The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, recently announced that the organization has rebranded as the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast, and has opened eligibility to contractors in Vermont. The PLC of the Northeast has been representing loggers since 1995, and the move reflects finding opportunity in a rapidly changing industry, says Executive Director Dana Doran…
Machine Innovator Neil Peterson Dies
A memorial service was held October 29 in Pleasant Hill, Ore. for forest machinery pioneer and innovator Neil Peterson, the driving force behind Peterson Pacific Corp. that revolutionized in-woods and mobile delimbing, debarking and chipping. Peterson was not just a pioneer in his field but also a generous philanthropist, a guiding force for his team, and a beacon of opportunities for his employees…
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