Sustainable Forestry

Felling Equipment & Machinery

Development Education
Mr Walsh 2022
Forestry Harvesting Machinery

1366 × 768 (deere.co.uk)

Log Harvester:
Used to Cut down and de-limb trees.
Lays logs in a pile where forwarder or skidder can collect. Video
Forwarder

Forwarder:
Collects logs in forest left by harvester, Uses grab to pick up logs and
transports them to road side. Video
 Skidder

Skidder:
A skidder is used to collect large or oversized logs and drags them to the
edge of the forest to be collected.
Video
Homework Task

 Pick one forestry machine from this presentation and pick one more using
your own research. Draw the two machines and write a small description of
each.

 Homework to be photographed and uploaded to Google Classroom to be

graded.