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 good and long cooperation. Our market here in Norway is growing, and this year will be a new record year. The Bear harvester is an impressive machine—and now even more so with its new H8 harvester head. This contributes to our strength in the most demanding harvesting operations in Norway,” says Carl-Henrik Hammar, Managing Director Ponsse AB and Ponsse AS.
Lågen Skogsdrift AS is owned by brothers Harald and Gunnar Evju, located in Svarstad in the south of Norway; they operate in the forest one week and rest the next.
The brothers are long-term Ponsse customers—this is their eighth Ponsse machine. Harald bought his first Ponsse HS 15 in 1996. He had already started working in the forest with a chainsaw in 1978, and his first harvester was a Logman, bought in 1993. In 2001, the brothers bought their first forest machine together. It was a Ponsse Ergo with six wheels and an H73 harvester head.
“We delivered the first Ponsse Bear harvester to Harald and Gunnar in January 2008, and this machine we are handing over today is their fifth Ponsse Bear,” says Tom Sundby, Ponsse AS salesman, south and west Norway. “I think Harald could be the person in Norway who has cut the most timber in his working life. He has cut something between 1.1 and 1.2 million cubic metres so far.”
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