April 28, 2009 A German mechanical engineer has designed a tree harvester that weighs just over a tenth of conventional vehicles used to fell trees, which causes less damage to forest floor.

Tree harvesting is a destructive business by design. The machines trample the forest floor, leaving pulverized tracks in their wake. Christian Knobloch, a German industrial designer, wanted to build a ...

Tree harvesting is a destructive business by design. The machines trample the forest floor, leaving pulverized tracks in their wake. Christian Knobloch, a German industrial designer, wanted to build a ...

Watching the Ponsse Beaver tree harvesting machine in action is nothing short of mesmerizing. The machine makes giant trees look like nothing more than toothpicks. Ponsse is a Finnish company that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Have a forest in the way? No problem. This monster machine, the Ponsse Beaver crane harvester is an unstoppable piece of machinery designed to fell a tree, sever all ...

We present an integrated system for performing precision harvesting missions using a legged harvester (HEAP) in a confined, GPS denied forest environment. The mission starts with a human mapping the ...

Deep in northern Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forest, the air reverberates with the sound of a tree harvester picking up fully grown jack-pines out of the ground like toothpicks. Once the trees ...

Bike-powered urban fruit tree harvesters. (Photos by Betsy Reese) Back in May, we shared how the connection between bikes and urban trees here in Portland is so strong it’s garnered national ...

HELSINKI, Finland, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ponsse is launching a new debarking PONSSE H7 HD Euca harvester head alongside the previously released H8 HD Euca. The new powerful harvester head ...