CUTTING EDGE
US celebrity loggers make trip to Sweden
udy and Aaron Pelletier, well-known from the TV show American Loggers on the Discovery Channel, have paid a visit to Bruks Mobile Chippers in Sweden. Rudy and Aaron learned that Bruks for more than 50 years has manufactured machinery for the biofuel market. Products are sold all over the world and more than 10,000 chippers have been built in the company’s Swedish and German facilities. At the company’s assembly
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Rudy Pelletier and Ola Galfvensjö, Manager for Bruks Mobile Chippers, in front of the chipper
The guests with the Bruks Mobile team (from left) Kerstin
Waagen, Klas-Håkan Ljungberg, Aaron Pelletier, Rudy
Pelletier, Thomas Treppe and Ola Galfvensjö
wood up to 50 cm in diameter. Rudy and Aaron even got to see how Swedish loggers actually use these machines. Tops and branches from logging operations were being gathered and then chipped to biofuel at the roadside by a BRUKS 805.2 STC on a Rottne forwarder.” Tomas Forsell was the Swedish logger Rudy
and Aaron met at the logging site. Tomas runs the company TF Flis (‘flis’ meaning chips) in Bjursås, central Sweden and has ample
among them Aaron, one of Rudy’s brothers’ sons. They are cutting over 750 000 m3
/y from
four different ‘logging camps’ in northern Maine, at the Canadian border. Some 100 employees live at those camps during the week, often several forest road hours away from civilization. They are using their company trucks to transport logs to sawmills and pulp mills frequently located on the other side of the border. Also the construction and maintenance of
forest roads in the area is taken care of by the company. Rudy said that although it is difficult also in
unit for mobile chippers in Norrborn /Bollnäs, not far from Bruks’ headquarters in Arbrå, the special guests had the opportunity to see for themselves how a real mobile chipper is built up from scratch. “They had a look at the assembly of our best- selling mobile chipper, the Bruks 805.2 STC to be mounted on a forwarder,” the manufacturer stated proudly. “This multi-function machine with a high-dumping chip bin is powered by a fuel-efficient diesel engine and chips effortlessly tops and branches, parts of trees and round
experience in the production of fuel chips. The company has owned quite a few Bruks chippers over the years and today operates, among other machinery, two truck-mounted Bruks chipping units, one of them newly delivered, as well as a Rottne forwarder with a new Bruks chipper. TF Flis also does other contracting work for the forest industry. Rudy is one of seven brothers running
Pelletier Brothers, a trucking and contracting company in Millinocket, Maine. Also four of the brothers’ sons are working in the company,
the US to find skilled drivers, many – including a lot of adventurers – had been trying to get a job at their company ever since its appearance in the American Loggers show. Their participation in the show has been both positive and negative for them, as it has cost them a lot of time during the three seasons the show has been running. In each season, they were basically living with the TV crew 24 hours a day three weeks at a time, with one week off, for eight months. 100 hours’ worth of footage was cut down to one hour on the TV screen. The main reason for them to participate was to get a chance to give the broader public better insight in modern forest use and its respect for the environment to help improve the reputation of forestry operations. Today the Pelletier brothers don’t have any chippers, but who knows – one day we might see a BRUKS mobile chipper in American Loggers.
www.bruks.com
John Deere adds high speed felling head option for J Series Feller Bunchers
John Deere’s new FR21B high-rotation felling head is now available on its 700J-Series tracked feller bunchers, providing faster cutting speeds to help loggers be even more productive. “Loggers everywhere are always looking for new ways to harvest more trees per shift, and we’re working to meet those needs,” Neil Harber, Product Marketing Manager with John Deere Feller Bunchers, said. “This new felling head option will help them spend less time tracking and more time cutting.” The new FR21B high-rotation felling head is
available on both the 753J and the 759J Series models. A Deere-designed high-rotation wrist delivers best-in-class accumulation capacity
among medium sized disk-saw felling heads, enabling loggers to cut more trees and track less often. It also provides improved tree holding and tree alignment, and it features easy service access to further improve productivity. With their large cutting swaths, advanced
hydraulic systems and cabs designed for maximum operator productivity, John Deere’s compact J-Series tracked feller bunchers are ideal choices for tight or steep-sloped logging. These new options enhance J-Series benefits to maximise logger productivity.
www.deere.com/forestry 68 International Forest Industries | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2011
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