Kiwi equipment cuts steep slope logging costs

摘要

It’s frustrating for loggers to have to bypass prime timber located in blocks with slopes deemed unsafe or too expensive for conventional logging equipment. But a new mobile cable yarding tool called Harvestline is now opening up many of these high-value blocks to logging.B.C. logger Ray Hascarl, who has put the first Harvestline yarder to work in North America, says that this mobile cable yarder is working out better than expected after a couple thousand hours on the job.“I could see that the format of wood in front of me always required tower logging, mixed with some grapple yarding from time to time,” says Hascarl. “I had to try to find a machine where I could harvest tower wood efficiently and take advantage of the grapple wood when available with fewer workers—and it also had to be easy to operate. Since I have owned the Harvestline, I have continued to log tower blocks with it.