HARVESTER HEADS
excavators weighing 20 t or more. The 378P is designed to effectively process, trim, cut and bark heavy tree species with high density. The development focus has been on functionality and simplicity. This is to create a unit that can handle demanding tasks with high productivity and low logging costs.
A completely new perspective and unparalleled efficiency for energy wood harvesting has been provided by MenSe RPK’s energy wood harvesting head with clearing blade, which simultaneously clears and harvests.
The Komatsu 365
demanding final clearing. This is a harvester head with “brains and power” – “an intelligent design under continuous improvement”. The Komatsu 370E is a robust, powerful and
highly productive harvester head built primarily for application on tracked base machines. The head has a robust chassis and a stable design built to satisfy the demands placed on it by really hard operation. The Komatsu 370E also comes with a continuous rotation function as an option. This function enables the head to rotate fully without risking hose breakage. With the Continuous Rotating function, all hoses and electric cables run through a swivel, which means the operator can focus solely on production. The Komatsu 370E Continuous Rotation is designed primarily for tracked feller/bunchers and excavators. Another harvester head designed for tracked machines is the Komatsu 378, a highly productive, powerful, and reliable head for tracked machines and excavators weighing 20 t or more. The Komatsu 378 has a strong, sturdy frame and high traction. All critical head components, such as plates, cutting unit, motors, mountings, knives, and hydraulics, are designed for highly productive use. The Komatsu 378 is also offered as the Komatsu 378E, which is a barking head. The Komatsu 378P is a new harvester head specially adapted for tracked machines and
The Mense RPK energy wood harvesting head
The present aim is to promote the use of forest The Komatsu 378E
energy remarkably due to its renewability, easy availability and ecological advantages. One major obstacle in increasing the use of energy wood has been the cost-inefficiency of the harvesting process. With the present equipment the collecting of small-diameter trees is a very slow and ineffective working phase. MenSe has been working for years on the development of devices for the cutting of small wood. The new MenSe RPK – energy wood harvesting head – enables the cost-effective and easy harvesting of small- diameter 0-150 mm bush wood and thicker wood up to the diameter of 600 mm. Small thickets can be cut with the clearing blade and thicker trunks are cut with the chain saw. The harvester head can be delivered with feeding rollers as an optional device or without the feeding feature. The MenSe RPK harvester head for energy wood is equipped with a standard stump treatment device. In many areas stamp treatment is an obligatory measure aiming at the prevention of wood destroying fungus in softwood areas. The RPK-energy wood harvester head is a two cutting devices harvester head. The harvester head is equipped with a cutting device enabling a
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